Short-writing. : The most easie, exact, lineall and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The last edition. With a new table for shortning of words. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city, and elsewhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie.
1660
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Title
Short-writing. : The most easie, exact, lineall and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The last edition. With a new table for shortning of words. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city, and elsewhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie.
Created/published
London : Printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley, next to Cornhill, 1660.
Description
[2], 4-7, 9-12, 21-26 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., port., tables ; (8vo)
Associated name
Metcalfe, Theophilus, active 1649, author.
Note
Text is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing.
Running title reads: The art of short-writing.
Running title reads: The art of short-writing.
ESTC staff note
DFONOTE edp title leaf is not a cancel; letterpress title page matches this record; engr. t.p for 9th edition (match engr. title page to M1928A?) FOREPLY DMS is the title page a cancel? Cuz, except for the tp, this looks suspiciously like M1928A. DFONOTE edp in imprint there is a comma after "printed"; Folger copy has two plates preceding letterpress t.p.: 1) author port.; 2) engr. t.p. reading "The 9th Edition much inlarged by the Author ..."; [20] plates (including engr. t.p. and author port. (some are numbered, as if to follow letterpress pagination, but not in sequence)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M1929
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R217847
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R217847
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
M1929 Bd.w. STC 24077a.2
Folger-specific note
ac5651.4. Bound in half calf with marbled papered boards. Final plate partially torn away at head fore-edge. Author port. and engr. t.p. mutilated, with some loss of text and image. Cropped, affecting some plate headlines. Stained. Bd.w: Tilney, Edmund. A briefe and pleasant discourse ... London, 1587 -- and nine other Wing period and early c18 printed works. Provenance: according to Folger card catalogue, Dalrymple family library copy