Alphabeth de la méthode d'écrire aussi vîte que la parole, & et dans toutes les langues
Publisher: P.-D. Couturier; for completion in manuscript by the author, 1786].
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [Paris
Language: fre
Notes: Pierre Dupont commissioned this broadside to advertise his shorthand course offered at Paris in 1785 and 1786. Unable to afford the casting of a font of type for his stenographical figures, he completed this in manuscript. At the top are rows of letterpress vowels and diphthongs, consonants, and common endings, below which a half dozen pronunciation variations are expressed. Dupont provided them all with their stenographic equivalent in his own hand in brown ink. Below on the left is a printed Explication setting forth his scheme for correlating speech with his stenographic scheme. On the right a five-line exercise touts the author's proposals, with his interlinear manuscript stenographic transcription of the text. At the bottom, he announces his twelve-lesson course, dedicates the sheet to his patron the duc d'Orleans, and signs and dates it 1786.

Titre de départ.

Par Pierre Dupont, tachygraphe du duc d'Orléans.

Impr. en France.

Rare Book copy: With ten lines of manuscript and seven lines of interlinear manuscript by the author.

CG, XLV, 113