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Stenography, on an improved plan. Calculated from its extreme simplicity to expedite the acquirement of this most important art

Archive Print Item: Shorthand/NIG

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Type of record: Book

Title: Stenography, on an improved plan. Calculated from its extreme simplicity to expedite the acquirement of this most important art

Level: Item

Classmark: Shorthand/NIG

Creator(s): Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824)

Publisher: Orlando Hodgson

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1824?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 40 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/266282

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017396319705181

Description

Preface and 3 plates dated 1823; portrait dated 1824.

Additional description

Cover-title reads: Nightingale's rational stenography or, short hand made easy, in a few familiar lessons, founded on Byrom's system. Wanting title page and portrait

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