The bibliography of shorthand / by John Westby-Gibson.

  • Westby-Gibson, John, 1823-1892.
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1887
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    Allen James ^Madison—continued. few hours, without a teacher. The cli- max o/ simplicity, uniformity, and scien- tific accuracy. By James Madison Allen, author of “the pannormalpha, or univer- sal normal alphabet, for printing and writing all possible languages;” “nor- mo-graphy, brief style ; ” “ pro-graphy, or substitute writing,” etc. Ancora, New Jersey : J. M. & S. S. Allen. 1872. [8vo., 8 pages.] Pro-graphy, or substitute writing. Normo-graphy, brief or consonantal style. A scientific system of rapid writing, for general use, and adapted to all ordinary business and literary pur- poses. A sequel to the full style. Written five or six times as fast as the common longhand, and yet so extremely simple as to be learned with ease and pleasure in an hour or two, without a teacher, by any one acquainted with the full style. J. M. and S. S. Allen, Ancora, N.J. 1872. 25 cents. Alphabet (The) of Reason : being an essay toward constructing a plan to facilitate the art of Swift Writing, com- monly called Short-hand ; upon rational principles. London, printed for the author : and sold by T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand ; C. Hen- derson, under the Royal Exchange, and W. Nichol, in St. Paul’s church yard, 1763. [8vo. 16 pp. & 2 large plates, viz. : a Comparative Table of Shorthand Alphabets, Willis, Mawd, Shelton, Rich, Nicholas, Addy, Mason, Lane, Weston, McAulay, Annet, Gurney, Angell, Swaine and Simms, Jeake, and Lyle, and a table of the author’s system. This work is ; founded on Jeake’s simple but worthless system of 8 characters, first put forth in the “ Philosophical Transactions,” No. 487. May 20, 1748. Brit. Mus.] Alphabet, Letters of the. For proportions of letters in a fount of English type, see Astle’s History of Writing, p. 225 ; John Johnson’s Typographia, ii., p. 30 ; Lewis’s History of Shorthand, p. 55 ; Timperley’s Printer's Manual, at end of j his Encyclopedia. | ' Alphabet of Universal Syllables. See The Lord’s Prayer in many tongues, price IS. 6d. London : Henry Blacklock and Co. [1884. 8vo. On the last page.] Alphabets. An alphabet of shorthand in 24 characters of 4 lengths by W. C., Exon. Gent’s Mag., p. 55, 1748. A new method of Short Writing in one view, consisting of but 26 characters in the whole art [in 3 lengths] by P. M. Gent.’s Mag., p. 246, 1748. Alphabets. In treating of the origin of writing and the gradual development of Shorthand Writing, the following works will be found useful for their Collection of Alphabets : Adelung’s ISIithridates, by Crabb, 1800. Astle, Origin of Writing, 1784, 1803, 1876. Ballhom, Grainmatography, 1844, 1861. Bible (The) of every Land, i860. Edinburgh Review, on Alphabets, Mar., 1819. Evans’s Alphabet and its Origin. Faulmann’s Buch der Schrift, 1878. ,, Geschichte der Schrift, 1880. Fauvel Gouraud’s Cosmophonography, 1850. Forster, One Primeval Language, 1851-4. Forsyth’s Ancient Manuscripts, 1872. Fry, Pantographia, 1799. Harkness’s Ancient Alphabets, 1837. Higgins’s Anacalypsis, 1836. Humphreys’s Origin, etc., of Writing, 1853. Johnson, Typographia, 1824. Lepsius, Linguistische Alphabet, 1855. Lord’s Prayer in many tongues (Blacklock), 1884. !Marcel, Study of Languages, 1869. Morton’s Table of Alphabets, 1759. Palmographical Society’s Facsimiles, 1873-8, etc. St Clair, Origin of Writing, in Modern Thought^ 1880. Sayce, on Writing, in Nature^ Feb., 1880. Silvestre, Alphabet Album. 1843. ,, Universal Pala?ography, 1850. Taylor’s History of the Alphabet, 1880. Van Helmont, Alphabet of Nature, 1667. Von Hammer’s Ancient Alphabets, 1806. Alphabets (On). Articles in Phonetic Journal, Aug. 5, 12 ; Sept. 9, 1882 ; and Sept. 29, 1883. Alphabets (Some), or Cyfres for Secret i Writing. Harl. MS., 537. Brit. Mus. Alphabets, Shorthand. For Comparative Lists of Shorthand Alphabets, see— Alphabet of Reason, 1763. Anderson’s History, 1882. ,, Shorthand Systems, 1883. Razaar^ from March, 1882, to Sept., 1883. Coles’s Shortest Shorthand, 1864. Faulmann’s Buch der Schrift, 1878. ., Geschichte der Schrift, 1880. Fauvel-Gouraud’s Cosmophonography, 1850. Guest’s Compendious Shorthand, 1882. ! Guest, in Shorthand^ 1882. ! Hodgson’s Shorthand Contractions, 1780. ! Lewis’s Historical Account, 1816. I Odell’s Twenty Shorthand Alphabets, 1845.