Short-writing
Subtitle: 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 Cornhil, learned so well by this book, that he wrote out all the Bible in this character
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1798:17
Publisher: printed for John Hancock near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil
Published: 1698
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Shorthand -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: With an added portrait of Metcalfe and added engraved title page that describes this as the 35th edition

Imperfect as filmed; Harvard University copy only partly filmed to make up imperfections in British Library copy

Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and in the Harvard University Library

Wing (2nd ed.) M1936

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1798:17).