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
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
Description
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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