Short-vvriting
Subtitle: The most easie, exact, lineall and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The ninth edition much enlarged and perfected by the author. 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 elswhere, 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 -- 1919:28.
Publisher: printed and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley, next to Cornhill
Published: 1657
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: Short-writing; Art of short-writing.
Notes: With an engraved portrait of Theophilius Metcalfe, and an added engraved title page signed: Cross sculp.

Text is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing.

Running title reads: The art of short-writing.

Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Imperfect; copy catalogued is missing the final three leaves.

Wing (2nd ed.) M1928A.

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 ; 1919:28).