Stenography; or, Short-hand improved: Being the most compendious, lineal, and easy method hitherto extant. The persons, moods, tenses & particles which most frequently occur, are adapted to join with ease & accuracy at pleasure: the rules are laid down with such propriety, consistence, & perspicuity, that the practitioner will need no other assistance. The whole illustrated with an alphabetical praxis, adapted to all purposes in general, but more particularly to the three learned professions; namely, law, physic, & divinity. By John Angell, who has practised this art above 30 years.

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n.d. [1758]. First edition. 8vo. [2], xx, [4], iii-xxix, [1] pp., XXI, [1]pp of plates. Signed and numbered (No 97) by the author on p.xx ( Lastly, in order to secure my Property, and prevent the Public from being imposed upon by spurious Editions, I shall number each Book, and sign my Name thereto. ). Proposals to print "A new treatise of stenography; . By John Angell, . price 5 s." appeared in the Public Advertiser Sat. March 12, 1757; Issue 6982. Inflation obviously bedevilled the trade even then and, on publication a year later, we have at the foot of the engraved title: Thos. Kitchin sculp. star Holborn Hill , and with Price bound 7 shillings below imprint.With 2 lines of errata on leaf c4 verso. With the list of subscribers (famously including 'Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M., London') following the preface; the first page mis-numbered xxxii. The first 2 pages of the Introduction are supplied in an old, good-quality manuscript, bound in. In contemporary boarded, full slotted vellum. William Loombe's book-plate to front pastedown and Ch. Rousseau's impressed Ex-Libris to ffep. ESTC T88352. N° de ref. del artículo PS.608

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