The pen's dexterity; or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand : containing twenty copper-plates, (curiously engraved in the author's life-time...) of all the letters, characters, and contractions used therein. With rules and directions explaining the same to the meanest capacity. Whereunto are added, law-terms, with other discourses, as on war, trade, birds, beasts, fruit, vermin, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: The pen's dexterity; or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand : containing twenty copper-plates, (curiously engraved in the author's life-time...) of all the letters, characters, and contractions used therein. With rules and directions explaining the same to the meanest capacity. Whereunto are added, law-terms, with other discourses, as on war, trade, birds, beasts, fruit, vermin, &c
Classmark: Shorthand/RIC
Creator(s): Rich, Jeremiah (1660)
Publisher: Printed for John Binns
Publication city: Leeds
Date(s): 1792
Language: English
Size and medium: 44 [i.e. 39] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243379
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014177589705181
Description
The plates are numbered as pages: 10-14, 17-22, 31-33 with 5 unnumbered plates at end.
Pages 9, 42 and 43 are skipped in numbering.
Ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand.
Access and usage
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