Short-writing
Subtitle: The most easie, exact, lineal and speedy method that hath ever been obtained or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The eighth edition much enlarged and perfected by the author. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city and els-where, 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 -- 1919:27
Publisher: printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head Alley, next to Corne-hill
Published: 1652
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: Art of short-writing
Notes: With a portrait of Theophilus Metcalfe, and an added engraved title page signed: Cross sculp

Text is intersperced with plates of shorthand writing

Running title reads: The art of short-writing

Reproduction of the original in the British Library

Wing (2nd ed.) M1928

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:27).