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An essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography : or, short-hand writing, upon such simple and improved principles, as have never before been offered to the public : whereby a person, in a few days, may instruct himself to write short-hand correctly : and by a little practice, cannot fail taking down any discourse delivered in public

Title: An essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography : or, short-hand writing, upon such simple and improved principles, as have never before been offered to the public : whereby a person, in a few days, may instruct himself to write short-hand correctly : and by a little practice, cannot fail taking down any discourse delivered in public / by Samuel Taylor, many years professor and teacher of the science, at Oxford, and the universities of Scotland and Ireland.
Author: Taylor, Samuel, active 1786-1816.
Publication: Albany [New York] : Re-printed from the London copy, for James Cation, by Websters and Skinner ..., [1810]

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80 p., 11 leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm. (8vo in 4s)

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Note

Probable date of publication from advertisement, p. [2].
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴.

Indexed In (note)

Shaw & Shoemaker

Call Number

*IDE (Taylor, S. Essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography)

LCCN

11012985

OCLC

13599884
NYPGR13599884-B

Author

Taylor, Samuel, active 1786-1816.

Title

An essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography : or, short-hand writing, upon such simple and improved principles, as have never before been offered to the public : whereby a person, in a few days, may instruct himself to write short-hand correctly : and by a little practice, cannot fail taking down any discourse delivered in public / by Samuel Taylor, many years professor and teacher of the science, at Oxford, and the universities of Scotland and Ireland.

Imprint

Albany [New York] : Re-printed from the London copy, for James Cation, by Websters and Skinner ..., [1810]

Indexed In:

Shaw & Shoemaker 21466

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Provenance: Gansevoort-Lansing Collection (stamp on front endpaper); Peter Gansevoort (signature on t.p.)

Pforzheimer copy: Binding: Publisher's original blue-gray boards, white paper spine. In white envelope.

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Cation, James. Publisher

Websters and Skinner. Printer

Gansevoort, Peter, 1749-1812. Former owner

Beale Shorthand Collection. Copy in *IDE

Research Call Number

*IDE (Taylor, S. Essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography)

Pforz (Taylor, S. /Essay) 1810

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