Stenography
Subtitle: or The art of short hand perfected.
Contributors: Mangan, C.
Edition: 5th ed., enl., cor. and improved with an additional plate. By C. Mangan.
Publisher: R. P. & C. Williams
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Shorthand.
Notes: Shaw and Shoemaker 49560.
The present work, originally published in 1802 by the London bookseller Lackington, and issued by him in 24 editions, is a cheap pirated edition of Samuel Taylor's "Essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography, or short hand writing." The first two American editions were issued anonymously, Boston 1809 and 1810 respectively. Mangan's name was given to the 3d (1810) edition and to the subsequent ones because of some slight improvements which he made. The 4th edition appeared in 1818; the present edition, the 5th, issued in 1819, is the last known.  cf. Beale, in Phonographic mag., v. 16 (1902) p. 160-164.
With this is bound a catalog of books for sale by R. P. & C. Williams (8 p.)