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.
| Author/creator | Metcalfe, Theophilus |
| Other author | Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | 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. |
| Description | [4], 4, p. 7, 9-12, 21-26 p., plates : ill., port. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240858967 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Art of short-writing. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | With a portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe and an added engraved title page that describes this as the 9th edition. |
| General note | Text is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing. |
| General note | Engraved title page signed: Cross sculp. |
| General note | Running title reads: The art of short-writing. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) M1931. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:30) |
| Stock number | CL0037000074 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |