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. A young man, that lately lived in Cornhill, learned so well by this book, that he wrote out all the Bible in this character.
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,
1679.
Running title reads: The art of short-writing.
With a portrait of Theophilus Metcalfe and an added engraved title page which states that this is the 19th edition.
Text is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing.
Engraved title page signed: Cross sculp.
Imperfect; pages have faded print affecting legibility.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Locations:  E   Shelfmark: Wn.849
Wing (2nd ed.) M1933.
ESTC
Microfilm.
Shorthand