01827nam 2200361 n 450 99639445280331620200824121859.0(CKB)4940000000120217(EEBO)2248513313(UnM)99826111e(UnM)99826111(EXLCZ)99494000000012021719941128d1698 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Short-writing[electronic resource] 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 last edition. 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 elsewhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie. A young man, that lately lived in Cornhil, learned so well by this book, that he wrote out all the Bible in this characterLondon printed for John Hancock near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil1698[4], 16 p., plates ill., portWith an added portrait of Metcalfe and added engraved title page that describes this as the 35th edition.Imperfect as filmed; Harvard University copy only partly filmed to make up imperfections in British Library copy.Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and in the Harvard University Library.eebo-0018ShorthandEarly works to 1800ShorthandMetcalfe Theophilusfl. 1649.1007854Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996394452803316Short-writing2322986UNISA