Short-vvriting : The most easie, exact, lineall and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The ninth edition much enlarged and perfected by the author. 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 elswhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie.

Author/creator Metcalfe, Theophilus
Other author Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : printed and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley, next to Cornhill, 1657.
Description[4], 4-7, 9-12, 21-26 p., plates : ill., port.
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Variant title Short-writing
Variant title Art of short-writing.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteWith an engraved portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe, and an added engraved title page signed: Cross sculp.
General noteText is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing.
General noteRunning title reads: The art of short-writing.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
General noteImperfect; copy catalogued is missing the final three leaves.
References Wing (2nd ed.) M1928A.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:28)
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