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The Arte of Brachygraphie That Is, to Write As Fast As a Man Speaketh Treatably, Writing but One Letter for a Word : London 1597

Bales, Peter

Amsterdam: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm / Da Capo Press, 1972.

Reprint Ed. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #14786
ISBN: 9022104265

Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light spine sun, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1597 edition, London: George Shawe and Ralph Blower for Thomas Charde. STC No. 1311. "The second enlarged edition of The Writing Schoolmaster (1590). Brachygraphie was one of the three forms of shorthand available to early Jacobean copyists."; The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 426; 120 pages.

Price: $29.95