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 InfoLondon : 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.
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Variant title Art of short-writing.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteWith a portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe and an added engraved title page that describes this as the 9th edition.
General noteText is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing.
General noteEngraved title page signed: Cross sculp.
General noteRunning title reads: The art of short-writing.
General noteReproduction of the original in the British Library.
References Wing (2nd ed.) M1931.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:30)
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