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Brachygraphy, or, Short-writing, made easy to the meanest capacity : the persons, moods, & tenses, being comprized in such a manner, that little more than the knowledge of the alphabet is required, to the writing hundreds of sentences, in less time than spoken : the whole is founded on so just a plan that it is wrote with greater expedition than any yet invented, and likewise may be read with the greatest ease : improved after upwards of thirty years practice and experience

Title: Brachygraphy, or, Short-writing, made easy to the meanest capacity : the persons, moods, & tenses, being comprized in such a manner, that little more than the knowledge of the alphabet is required, to the writing hundreds of sentences, in less time than spoken : the whole is founded on so just a plan that it is wrote with greater expedition than any yet invented, and likewise may be read with the greatest ease : improved after upwards of thirty years practice and experience / by Tho. Gurney.
Author: Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.
Publication: [London : s.n., 1760]

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Howard Shorthand Collection.

Description

53 p. : port.; 13 cm.

Alternative Title

Brachygraphy
Short-writing, made easy to the meanest capacity

Subject

Shorthand

Note

"Publish'd according to act of Parliam."
16 engraved leaves, numbered 3-6, 11-38, are included in the pagination.
The title page is engraved.

Indexed In (note)

ESTC
Alston

Call Number

*IDE (Gurney. Brachygraphy. various editions, 1760-1803)

OCLC

38371465

Author

Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.

Title

Brachygraphy, or, Short-writing, made easy to the meanest capacity : the persons, moods, & tenses, being comprized in such a manner, that little more than the knowledge of the alphabet is required, to the writing hundreds of sentences, in less time than spoken : the whole is founded on so just a plan that it is wrote with greater expedition than any yet invented, and likewise may be read with the greatest ease : improved after upwards of thirty years practice and experience / by Tho. Gurney.

Imprint

[London : s.n., 1760]

Edition

4th ed.

Indexed In:

ESTC T134666

Alston VIII, 216

Local Note

This copy no. 1038, with autograph of author.

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Added Author

Howard Shorthand Collection.

Other Form:

Online version: Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770. Brachygraphy: or, Short-writing. 4. ed. [London, 1760] (OCoLC)665117220

Research Call Number

*IDE (Gurney. Brachygraphy. various editions, 1760-1803)

*IDE (Gurney, T. Brachygraphy. 1760)

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