Stenography, or, The art of short hand perfected
Subtitle: containing rules and regulations, whereby the most illiterate may acquire the mode of taking down trials, orations, lectures, &c., in a few hours, and be competent by a little experience to practice the same
Contributors: Mangan, C.
Edition: 5th ed. / enlarged, corrected and improved, with an additional plate, by C. Mangan
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49560
Publisher: R.P. & C. Williams
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Shorthand
Notes: 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

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