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Stenography : or short-hand improved: being the most compendious, lineal, and easy method hitherto extant... The whole illustrated with an alphabetical praxis, adapted by to all purposes in general, but more particularly to the three learned professions; namely, law, physic, & divinity

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Type of record: Book

Title: Stenography : or short-hand improved: being the most compendious, lineal, and easy method hitherto extant... The whole illustrated with an alphabetical praxis, adapted by to all purposes in general, but more particularly to the three learned professions; namely, law, physic, & divinity

Level: Item

Classmark: Shorthand/ANG

Creator(s): Angell, John (1764)

Additional creator(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) (Other)

Related people: Johnson, Samuel

Publisher: Printed for the author, & sold by A. Miller [etc.]

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1758]

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 p.l., iii-xx, [4], iii-xxix p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243194

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014167899705181

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Engraved title-page.


"The learned preface is said to have been written by Dr. Johnson. The system is chiefly Mason's of 1707, now called Gurney's"-- Westby-Gibson Bibliography of shorthand, p. 8.

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