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.
Metcalfe, Theophilus,active 1649.
Cross, Thomas,active 1632-1682,engraver.
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.
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.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Shorthand
Also reproduced on microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1989. Early English books, 1641-1700; 1919:30.