- Additional Authors
- Description
- 21, [1] p., x leaves of plates : ill.; 17 cm. (12mo)
- Subject
- Shorthand > Early works to 1800
- Note
- Engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Gurney.
- Plates signed: Birch, Sculp., plate IX omitted in this ed.
- Adaptation of Thomas Gurney's Brachygraphy.
- Signatures: A⁶ B⁶(-B6)
- Publisher's advertisement: p. [22].
- Printed slip mounted on cover: Gurney's Brachygraphy improved.
- An abridgment of Gurney's Method of shorthand.
- Plates numbered 1-10, with no. 9 omitted, although the book is complete.
- Indexed In (note)
- Call Number
- *IDS p.v. 73, no. 6
- LCCN
- 11012972
- OCLC
- 36487803
- Author
Sarjeant, Thomas.
- Title
An easy and compendious system of short-hand : adapted to the arts and sciences and to the learned professions : for the use of schools, abstracted from the larger edition / by Thomas Sarjeant, illustrated with ten copperplates.
- Imprint
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Lang : Sold by T. Dobson, 1792.
- Indexed In:
Evans 24370
- Local Note
Without the label "Gurney's Brachygraphy improved ..." pasted on the cover, and erroneously described by Evans as the half-title. In original wrappers, with a spot showing where the label was originally pasted.
- Added Author
Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.
American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Beale Shorthand Collection.
- Research Call Number
*IDS p.v. 73, no. 6