Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; New YorkEvans and Dickerson [and] Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. First American edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I; original green cloth, paper labels on spines; labels toned, else a very good, sound set. More
New York: M. Day & Co., 1843. 8vo, pp. 34; orig. brown printed wrappers; aside from a few minor nick at the wrapper edges, this is a fine copy. Two editions were published in 1843, one in Providence and the other in New York. "Internal differences led Graff to believe..... More
Albany: reprinted from the London copy for James Cation, by Websters & Skinner, [1810]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [11], 12-80; 11 engraved plates of shorthand at the back; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; spine partially perished but on the whole a very good, sound copy. Introduced in..... More
Boston: Elam Bliss, for R. M'Dermut, 1810. Third edition, 12mo, pp. 16, 5 engraved plates, 1 folding; original printed paper wrappers; covers toned and spotted, spine perished with string repair, corner of lower cover perished and corner of last plate worn (no loss of letterpress), plates foxed, good. The first..... More
Boston: S. G. Snelling, 1809. First edition, 12mo, pp. 16, 4 engraved plates (1 folding); original marbled paper wrappers with manuscript title on upper cover; owner's signature on flyleaf, near fine. This piracy of the Taylor shorthand system was the first American edition of Taylor Shorthand and the first book..... More
