Brachygraphy: or an easy and Compendious System of Short-Hand, Adapted to the Various Arts, Sciences and Professions.
London: Printed for W. B. Gurney, sold by Butterworth & Son, 1817.
Price: $150.00
About the item
Fourteenth Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Gurney, 12 engraved plates of examples of pages of short-hand. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, single dotted with intermittant larger dots forming border on covers. signatures of Sophy and John Chossa, Gibr[altar], 1834 at back. Rubbed, surface worming, chipping of head and tail of spine, engraved title, pencil drawings on front blanks, some waterstaining in lower out corners, mostly marginal, some light soiling.
Item #33485
Four poems to the author precede the text. The authors are identified only by initials: E[rasmus] D[arwin], C. H., H. B. and W. B. The final leaf bears the signature of W[illiam] B[rodie] Gurney, the editor, also a shorthand writer, the grandson of Thomas and son of Joseph.
