The writing schoolmaster
By: P. Bales.
Publisher: University Microfilms
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Format: Text
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Orthography and spelling.; Shorthand -- Early works to 1800; Penmanship -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: The writing schoolemaster; The arte of brachygraphie; The order of orthographie; The key of calygraphie
Notes: Cover title.

Added title page title: The writing schoolemaster: containing three bookes in one: the first, teaching swift writing; the second, true writing; the third, faire writing.

Facsimile reprint from microfilm (1965).  Originally published: London: by Thomas Orwin, and are to be solde at the authors house in the upper ende of the Old Bayly, where he teacheth the said artes, 1590.

S.T.C. no. 1312.
Table of contents: title: The first booke, entitled: The arte of brachygraphie; that is, to write as fast as a man speaketh treatably, writing but one letter for a word; verie commodious for the generall encrease and furtherance of learning in all estates and degrees, the knowledge whereof may easilie be attained by one moneths studie, and the performance by one moneths practice; the proofs alreadie made by divers schollers therein.; title: The second boooke [sic] named: The order of orthographie; shewing the perfect method to write true orthographie in our English tongue, as it is now generally printed, used, and allowed, of the best & most learned writers; to be attained by the right use of this booke without a schoolmaster, in short time, and with small paines, by your owne private studies.; title: The third booke is: The key of calygraphie; opening the readie waie to write faire in verie short time, by the observations of necessarie rules here set down, and by the imitation of the best examples that may be procured / invented by P. Bales, 1 Janu. 1590.