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Short-writing : the most easie, exact, lineal, and speedy method that [hath] ever been obtained or taught
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- 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 theire own experience testifie. A young man that lately lived in Cornhill, learned so well by this book, that he wrote out all the Bible in this character. London, Printed for John Hancock near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1698
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- English
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- [England?] : [producer not identified], [between 1698 and 1717?]
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- 1 volume (32 pages, 31 unnumbered pages) : 1 illustration ; 17 cm
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- on1085677180
- Manuscript copy of the 1698 "last edition," written in fine calligraphic script by an unknown hand (possibly James Stack) after 1698 and before 1717. With manuscript title page and hand-drawn frontispiece portrait of Metcalfe.
- "The gift of James Stack to Wm. Sweet"--Inscribed at head of title.
- "The gift of James Stack to William Sweet"--Page 31.
- "James Stack, his hand [th]e 9th day of Sep.br. 1706"--Page 8.
- "William Sweet, his book, 1717"--Preliminary page.
- The last 7 pages include an addendum ("Domestic notes") on the Italian method of bookkeeping.