Brachygraphy: or an easy and Compendious System of Short-Hand, Adapted to the Various Arts, Sciences and Professions [SIGNED]

Editore: Printed for W. B. Gurney, London, 1817

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Duodecimo. [2] 76pp. Bound in contemporary calf with decorative gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Speckled edges. Frontispiece engraving of Thomas Gurney. Title page with decorative elements. Signed N.B. Gurney (possibly H.B.) on last page. Title page: "Improved after more than Fourty Years Practice & Experience by Thomas Gurney: And brought still nearer to Perfection upon the present Method by Joseph Gurney." Dedicated to the King, London, July, 1772. Illustrated with twelve plates of samples of shorthand. Light wear along edges. Illustrated book plates of Sir John Stirling Maxwell on inside front, of Nether Pollok. Arts of Design, on inside back cover, Some offsetting of inner calf edges to endpapers. Block with very light damp-staining. "Although Brachygraphy, or the Art of Writing in abbreviated Characters, is extremely ancient )for we read of its being practiced, in the Roman Senate, by persons whom Cicero instructed and employed for that purpose); yet, it was not introduced into our own country, till toward the latter end of the sixteenth century; when, in the year 1588, Dr. Timothy Bright printed a treatise entitled "Charactere, or the Art of short, secret, and swift Writing, by Characters;" which he dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, under whose Letters Patent it was published. The variatio, admitted into the edition now presented to the Reader, are the result of intense application, and experienced usefulness. At the same time that I have, by expunging a great number of needless characters, rendered a complete knowledge of the art more easily attainable, I have laboured (I trust with success) to make the system more comprehensive, and the characters more intrinsically legible, than has hitherto been effected." (Preface to the ninth edition).…

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Titolo
Brachygraphy: or an easy and Compendious System of Short-Hand, Adapted to the Various Arts, Sciences and Professions [SIGNED]
Autore
Gurney, Thomas; Joseph Gurney
Editore
Printed for W. B. Gurney, London
Anno di pubblicazione
1817
Condizione
Very good condition
Firmato
Signed
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Hardcover
Edizione
Fourteenth Edition.
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