Research Catalog

Title

Brachygraphy [electronic resource] : 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 maybe read with the greatest Ease. Improv'd after upwards of Thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Tho: Gurney.

Author

Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.

Publication

[London?, s.n., 1770?]

Details

Description

iv,3-6,5-48p.,plate : port.; 16⁰.

Subject

Shorthand

Note

• The titlepage is engraved.
• 16 engraved leaves, numbered 3-6, 11-38 are included in the pagination.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• Alston
• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642446201
• ECCO1-T146752

Author

Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.

Title

Brachygraphy [electronic resource] : 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 maybe read with the greatest Ease. Improv'd after upwards of Thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Tho: Gurney.

Imprint

[London?, s.n., 1770?]

Edition

The seventh edition.

Indexed In:

Alston, VIII, 219

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T146752.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.