An essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography, or, short-hand writing...
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in England in 1786, Taylor shorthand was an influential and dominant system of shorthand until it was eventually superseded by Pitman. "Indeed, it is upon the Harding adaptation of Taylor that Isaac Pitman wisely based 'Phonography,' and to the sterling qualities of the Taylorian ground work added the light and airy, but strong, Pitmanic superstructure which has enabled Pitman shorthand ('the genus, rather than the species') to tower above all competing systems like a modern sky scraper above the four- and five-story architectural masterpieces of our fathers." Aside from a spurious title that failed to attribute its system to Taylor, printed in 1809, this is the first book of Taylor shorthand printed in the US. Westby-Gibson p. 216. Item #53479
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