Stenography compleated,, or, The art of short-hand brought to perfection; :
being the most easy, exact, speedy, and legible method extant: whereby can be joined in every sentence, at least two, three, four, five, six, seven, or more words together in one without taking off the pen, in the twinkling of an eye: and that by the signs of the English moods, tenses, persons, particles, &c., never before invented. /
Compos'd by James Weston.

Description

Main Author

Weston, James, stenographer.

Language(s)

English

Published

London. : Printed for the author, and sold by him ... 1740..

Subjects

Shorthand > Shorthand / Dictionaries.
Shorthand > Shorthand / Early works to 1800.

Note

A reissue of the 1727 ed. with new t.p.; cf. ESTC, N024166.
Frontispiece signed: J. Dowling pinx., J. Coles sculp.; t.p. and other illustrations engraved by Cole.
"By this new method any, who can but tolerably write their names in round-hand, may with ease (by this book alone without any teacher) take down from the speaker's mouth, any sermon, speech, trial, play, &c., word by word, though they know nothing of Latin, and may likewise read one another's writing distinctly, be it ever so long after it is written. To perform these by any other short-hand method extant is utterly impossible: as is evident from the books themselves."
Engraved, with the exception of 8 p. following general t.-p., and pt. [4], p. 1-16.
Parts [2]-[4] have special t.-p.; pt. [2]: Directions for writing shorthand ... pt. [3]: A dictionary, or An alphabetical table, containing almost all the words in the English tongue, with the short-hand over against each word ... pt. [4]: Observations, and explications ...

Physical Description

[10], XL, [160], 16 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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