The most rational, easy, and speedy method of writing short-hand, [electronic resource] : without pen and ink, in three parts, Viz. I. A triple alphabet, which contracts the whole Language without the help of Dots or Vowels. II. Contraction, Rational, Grammatical, and Elliptical, in all their Parts, exemplisied by a variety of Striking examples, and an Index of ten thousand words. III. Syntax, or the method of Joining words together, founded upon an Immutable plan. The whole of this art, resting upon only thirteen arbitrary Characters, is reduced to the capacities of Youth, and the public, for ever delivered from all further Impositions on the subject of Short-Hand. By J. Mitchell.
1784
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The most rational, easy, and speedy method of writing short-hand, [electronic resource] : without pen and ink, in three parts, Viz. I. A triple alphabet, which contracts the whole Language without the help of Dots or Vowels. II. Contraction, Rational, Grammatical, and Elliptical, in all their Parts, exemplisied by a variety of Striking examples, and an Index of ten thousand words. III. Syntax, or the method of Joining words together, founded upon an Immutable plan. The whole of this art, resting upon only thirteen arbitrary Characters, is reduced to the capacities of Youth, and the public, for ever delivered from all further Impositions on the subject of Short-Hand. By J. Mitchell.
Uniform Title
Ars scribendi sine penna
Edition
Third edition.
Publication Details
London : printed by J. Nichols, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-Street; and sold by J. Bew, No 28, Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
ix,[1],115,117-134,[3]p. ; 8⁰.
Note
The text is continuous despite the pagination.
With a half-title and final errata leaf.
Part of the text is in MS.
An enlarged edition of Mitchell's 'Ars scribendi sine penna'.
Price from imprint: Price One Guinea.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
With a half-title and final errata leaf.
Part of the text is in MS.
An enlarged edition of Mitchell's 'Ars scribendi sine penna'.
Price from imprint: Price One Guinea.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T117218.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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