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.
Contributors: Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682 engraver.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1919:30.
Publisher: 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, or at his shop in Bishops-Gate-Street, near great St. Hellens, over against Gresham-Colledg
Published: 1669
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Shorthand -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Art of short-writing.
Notes: With a portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe and an added engraved title page that describes this as the 9th edition.

Text is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing.

Engraved title page signed: Cross sculp.

Running title reads: The art of short-writing.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Wing (2nd ed.) M1931.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:30).