Short-writing : the most easie, exact, lineal, and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The last edition. With a new table for shortning of words. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city, and elsewhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for, and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-Head-Alley in Cornhil, at the sign of the three Bibles, or at his shop in Bishops-Gate-Street, near great St. Hellens, over against Gresham-Colledg,
1669.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | With a portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe and an added engraved title page that describes this as the 9th edition. Text is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing. Engraved title page signed: Cross sculp. Running title reads: The art of short-writing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([4], 4, pages 7, 9-12, 21-26 pages, plates : illustrations, portrait. |