A complete guide to the art of writing short-hand, being an entirely new and comprehensive system of representing the elementary sounds of the English language, in stenographic characters.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Haven. Perkins & Marvin, et al. 1837. 12mo, pp. 120; engraved frontispiece and plate; patterned cloth boards backed in roan, gilt title on spine; spine worn, corners bumped, owner's signature and a few ink stains, text clean and sound. "This system, the production of an Englishman, was first brought out in the United States ... it is phonetic, but not sufficiently stenographic. The vowels are written by full-sized joined letters." (Pitman, History of shorthand). Westby-Gibson p. 220. Item #54154
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