The pen's dexterity: or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates (curiously Engrav'd in the Author's Life time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters and Contractions us'd therein. With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruits, Vermin. &c. Approv'd by both Universities, practis'd by Honourable Persons, Reverend Divines, Eminent Lawyers and Gentlemen; and is of special Use for Travellers, &c. By Jeremiah Rich, To whom the Publick is so much oblig'd for the Psalms and New Testament done by him in the same Character.

  • Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.
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[1735?]
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London : printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown, over against the New Church in Lombard-Street, [1735?]

Physical description

8,15-16,23-30,34-43,[12]p.,plates ; 120.

Edition

The seventeenth edition.

References note

ESTC T195287

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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