A new short-hand grammar, containing a general rule, for writing any language, whether English, Latin, French, &c. Also, particular shortening and joining rules, fitted to the English tongue, ... compos'd by James Weston, ...
Weston, James,stenographer.
London : printed for the author, and sold by him only, at the hand and pen, over-against Water-Lane, in Fleet Street,
1746.
After p.76 an engraved divisional titlepage; 'Observations and explications' and a leaf of illustration has been inserted.
The divisional titlepages read: 'Directions for writing short-hand' and 'A dictionary or an alphabetical table'.
The final 26-pages are letterpress.
This is a slightly altered and condensed version of 'Stenography compleated', 1727 (Alston).
The titlepage is engraved.
Pp.1-76 are engraved tables, with two engraved divisional titlepages and leaves of illustration inserted after pp.8 and 44.
The dedications and preface are letterpress.
ESTC
Alston viii, 199
Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1985. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 953, no. 11.