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.
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- 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.
- Art of short-writing
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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.
- Publication year
- 1669-1669
- ESTC No.
- R217851
- Grub Street ID
- 92590
- Description
- [4], 4, p. 7, 9-12, 21-26 p., plates : ill., port. ; 8⁰
- Note
- With a portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe and an added engraved title page that describes this as the 9th edition.
Text is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing.
Engraved title page signed: Cross sculp.
Running title reads: The art of short-writing.