The most rational, easy, and speedy method of writing short-hand
Subtitle: without pen and ink, in three parts ... the whole of this art, resting upon only thirteen arbitrary characters, is reduced to the capacities of youth, and the public, for ever delivered from all further impositions on the subject of short-hand
By: by J. Mitchell
Contributors: Nichols, John, 1745-1826, printer; Bew, John, -1793, bookseller
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Printed by J. Nichols, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-Street; and sold by J. Bew, No 28, Pater-Noster-Row
Published: 1784
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Shorthand; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Ars scribendi sine penna
Notes: The text is continuous despite the pagination.

With a half-title and final errata leaf.

Shorthand notation is in MS.

At foot of titlepage: price one guinea.

P. 1-8 engraved.

An enlarged edition of Mitchell's 'Ars scribendi sine penna'.

Rare Book copy: Bound with: A short, plain, and comprehensive Hebrew grammar : for the use of students in the universities, and of private gentlemen -- London : Printed for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, (No. 62.) St. Paul's Church-Yard, M DCC LXXXV. [1785]; A french grammar : to which is prefixed, an analysis relating to that subject / by R. Labutte, teacher of the French language in the University of Cambridge -- Cambridge : printed by J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University; sold by J. & J. Merrill, J. Deighton, and J. Nicholson, in Cambridge; B. White, in Fleetstreet, R. Faulder, in New Bond-Street, and G. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]; An analysis of the Greek metres : for the use of students at the universities / by J.B. Seale, M.A., fellow of Christ College, Cambridge -- Cambridge : Printed by J. Archdeacon printer to the University; for J. Deighton in Cambridge; and sold by Messrs. Rivington, T. Cadell, and T. Payne, London; and J. & J. Fletcher, Oxford, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].

Rare Book copy: Contemporary half calf binding, marbled boards, morocco label "Shorthand &c.")

Rare Book copy: Contemporary ownership inscription of J. Turner (possibly the Reverend Mr. Turner of Pembroke Hall in the list of subscribers at the beginning of Labutte's French grammar), with manuscript list of the 4 works in his hand.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T117218

Alston, R. Bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800, VIII, 272
Table of contents: title: I.A triple alphabet, which contracts the whole language without the help of dots or vowels; title: II. Contraction, rational, grammatical, and elliptical, in all their parts, exemplified by a variety of striking examples, and an index of ten thousand words; title: III. Syntax, or the method of joining words together, founded upon an Immutable plan.