The bibliography of shorthand / by John Westby-Gibson.

  • Westby-Gibson, John, 1823-1892.
Date:
1887
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    Addy William—continued. The Book of Common Prayer writ- ten in Shorthand, by Wm. Addy. En- graved by John Sturt. A Shorthand Curiosity. Addy’s Bible, by A. Paterson, Phonetic Journal, April 4. 1885, and by J. E. Bailey, April 18, 1885. Admiralty Court. In relation to Short- hand practice. See Levy’s “ Shorthand Notes,” 1884, p. 126. Adventures of a Shorthand Writer, in easy reporting style of Phonography, freely vocalized. Second edition. Post- free, 6d. S. Y. Futt, St Paul’s road, Fisherton, Salisbury. .£neas Tacticus. ^Tineas vetustissimi Tactic! Commentarius, de toleranda ob- sidione, Casaubono interprete. 1610. [8vo. This Roman author has many ab- breviating systems of writing, substitut- ing points for vowels, etc.] Agricultural Subjects in Shorthand. 4 vols. MS. on parchment, early date, 8vo. The late Mr Walford’s Library. Aids to reporting ; or, the Student’s Guide to Press occupation. By a Parliamentary veteran. London : Groombridge & Sons. 1858. [i6mo. 85 pp. The author dates from “ The Inner Recesses, St Stephen’s, Westminster.”] Aids to reporting ; or, the Student’s Guide to Press occupation, containing plain and practical directions for acquiring facility and precision in reporting, and full instructions for correction for the Press. New edition, revised. London: Groombridge and Sons. (1874.) [i2mo. 32 pp. Price IS. This book consists of entirely new matter and is more meth- odically arranged than the previous one.] Aitchison Jasper and John. A new system of Shorthand, in which legibility, lineal- ity, and brevity are secured upon the most natural principles with respect to both the signification and formation of the characters, especially by the singular property of their sloping in general ac- cording to the habitual motion of the hand in common writing ; by Jasper and John Aitchison. London : Printed for Aitchison Jasper and John—continued, the authors, 31 Poland street, Oxford street. 1832.^^8vo. 20 pp. Brit. Mus. This is the of the script hand or sloping hand systems published in Eng- land. The characters are filled in.] Aldridge William. See Holdsworth, William, Natural Shorthand, etc. Alethographic Reader. See Harris, George. Alethographic Shorthand Journal, etc. Edited and published by George Harris, Gloucester, 1879, etc. See Williams, J. (Rev.). Alchemical Notes. Small MS. book. Brit. Mus. Sloane, 613, containing two shorthand alphabets of a very simple kind, for ciphers. Date 1597. Algebraical, Mathematical, and Geo- metrical Characters. Johnson’s Typo- graphia, ii. 237. Timperley’s Printer’s Manual, p. 65. All the Year Round. See vol. xxxv. p. 508 on “ Ciphers and Cipher Writing.” All about Shorthand. A Circular of information. Phonographic Head Quar- ters, 23 Clinton place. New York. [D. L. Scott-Browne’s.] Allen G. G. Universal Phonography : or Shorthand by the “Allen method.” A self-instructor, whereby more speed than long-hand writing is gained at the first, and additional speed at each subsequent lesson. By G. G. Allen, principal of the Allen stenographic institute, Boston. Boston : Lee and Shepard : New York : Charles T. Dillingham. 1883. [142 pp., including 48 pp. of examples, and at the end a curious “ Circular vowel scale.” Brit. Mus.] Allen H. B. See Shorthand Times, edited by him. Allen James Madison. Normo-graphy : (Normal, or natural writing.) Full style, for beginners. A new, beautiful, and philosophical system of short-hand, in- tended for all who write, and within the reach of the dullest comprehension ; being entirely free from all arbitrary contractions whatsoever, and acquired with ease and pleasure by any one, in a
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