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Phonography : or, writing by sound: a natural method of writing all languages by one alphabet, composed of signs that represent the sounds of the human voice: adapted also to the English language as a complete system of shorthand, briefer than any other system, and by which a speaker can be followed verbatim, without the use of arbitrary marks, beyond the letters of the alphabet

Archive Print Item: Shorthand/PIT

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Type of record: Book

Title: Phonography : or, writing by sound: a natural method of writing all languages by one alphabet, composed of signs that represent the sounds of the human voice: adapted also to the English language as a complete system of shorthand, briefer than any other system, and by which a speaker can be followed verbatim, without the use of arbitrary marks, beyond the letters of the alphabet

Level: Item

Classmark: Shorthand/PIT

Creator(s): Pitman, Sir Isaac (1813-1897)

Publisher: Samuel Bagster & sons

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1842

Language: English

Size and medium: 16 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243469

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014180939705181

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"... Also issued as a 'Pocket edition'... and as a 'School edition'."--Westby-Gibson, Bibl. of shorthand.


Cover reads: "The people's edition of Phonography... [etc.]".

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