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 Info | London : 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. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2264214018 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Short-writing |
| Variant title | Art of short-writing. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | With an engraved portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe, and an added engraved title page signed: Cross sculp. |
| General note | Text is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing. |
| General note | Running title reads: The art of short-writing. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. |
| General note | Imperfect; copy catalogued is missing the final three leaves. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) M1928A. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:28) |
| Stock number | CL0037000074 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |