Short-writing. 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 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.

All titles

• Short-writing. 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 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.
• Art of short-writing

People / Organizations

• Theophilus Metcalfe (Author)

Imprint

London: printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley, next to Cornhill, 1660.

Publication year

1660-1660

ESTC No.

R217847

Grub Street ID

92586

Description

[2], 4-7, 9-12, 21-26 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., port., tables ; 8⁰

Note

Text is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing.

Running title reads: The art of short-writing.

Uncontrolled note

DFONOTE edp title leaf is not a cancel; letterpress t.p. matches this record; engr. t.p for 9th edition (match engr. t.p. to M1928A?) FOREPLY DMS is the title page a cancel? Cuz, except for the tp, this looks suspiciously like M1928A. DFONOTE edp in imprint there is a comma after "printed"; Folger copy has two plates preceding letterpress t.p.: 1) author port.; 2) engr. t.p. reading "The 9th Edition much inlarged by the Author ..."; [20] plates (including engr. t.p. and author port. (some are numbered, as if to follow letterpress pagination, but not in sequence)