Brachygraphy: or an easy and Compendious System of Short-Hand, Adapted to the Various Arts, Sciences and Professions [SIGNED]

Published by Printed for W. B. Gurney, London, 1817

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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)

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Duodecimo. [2] 76pp. Bound in contemporary calf with decorative gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Speckled edges. Frontispiece engraving of Thomas Gurney. Title page with decorative elements. Signed N.B. Gurney (possibly H.B.) on last page. Title page: "Improved after more than Fourty Years Practice & Experience by Thomas Gurney: And brought still nearer to Perfection upon the present Method by Joseph Gurney." Dedicated to the King, London, July, 1772. Illustrated with twelve plates of samples of shorthand. Light wear along edges. Illustrated book plates of Sir John Stirling Maxwell on inside front, of Nether Pollok. Arts of Design, on inside back cover, Some offsetting of inner calf edges to endpapers. Block with very light damp-staining. "Although Brachygraphy, or the Art of Writing in abbreviated Characters, is extremely ancient )for we read of its being practiced, in the Roman Senate, by persons whom Cicero instructed and employed for that purpose); yet, it was not introduced into our own country, till toward the latter end of the sixteenth century; when, in the year 1588, Dr. Timothy Bright printed a treatise entitled "Charactere, or the Art of short, secret, and swift Writing, by Characters;" which he dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, under whose Letters Patent it was published. The variatio, admitted into the edition now presented to the Reader, are the result of intense application, and experienced usefulness. At the same time that I have, by expunging a great number of needless characters, rendered a complete knowledge of the art more easily attainable, I have laboured (I trust with success) to make the system more comprehensive, and the characters more intrinsically legible, than has hitherto been effected." (Preface to the ninth edition).…

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Title
Brachygraphy: or an easy and Compendious System of Short-Hand, Adapted to the Various Arts, Sciences and Professions [SIGNED]
Author
Gurney, Thomas; Joseph Gurney
Publisher
Printed for W. B. Gurney, London
Publication year
1817
Condition
Very good condition
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Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Fourteenth Edition.
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Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials. We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language. In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography. Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums. We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms. We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns. Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide. Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America. We welcome your inquiries.…

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