Stenography, or, Short-hand improved
Subtitle: being the most compendious, lineal, and easy method hitherto extant ... : the whole illustrated with an alphabetical praxis, adapted to all purposes in general, but more particularly to the three learned professions; namely, law, physic, & divinity
By: by John Angell ...
Publisher: Printed for the author, & sold by A. Miller ... [and 6 others
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Engraved t.p.

The dedication has been erroneously ascribed to Samuel Johnson.

Each copy is signed and numbered by the author.

Signatures: pi1 a-c⁴ A-C⁴ D².

List of subscribers, including Samuel Johnson: p. [1]-[3] (3rd count), p. [1] misnumbered xxxii.

Errata on p. [4] (3rd count) in two lines in some copies and four lines in others.

"Price bound 7 shillings."

Eddy & Fleeman. Books to which Johnson subscribed, 1

ESTC T88352

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ1019.

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ1002.

Ownership inscription of John Harding; armorial bookplate of Edward Dalton; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Ownership inscription of Edmund Turton; bookplate of R.B. Adam; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Copy no. 151.

Bound in contemporary full sprinkled calf, covers and spine stamped in gilt.

Copy no. 279.

Bound in contemporary full sprinkled calf, covers and spine stamped in gilt.