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 eighth edition much enlarged and perfected by the author. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city and els-where, 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 Corne-hill, 1652. |
| Description | [3], 7, 9-11, 21-26 p., plates : ill., port. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248496824 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Art of short-writing. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | With a portrait of Theophilus Metcalfe, and an added engraved title page signed: Cross sculp. |
| General note | Text is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing. |
| General note | Running title reads: The art of short-writing. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) M1928. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:27) |
| Stock number | CL0037000074 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |