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SHELTON (THOMAS) Tachy-graphy. The Most Exact and Compendious Methode of Short and Swift Writing that Hath Ever Yet Been Published by Any. Composed by Thomas Shelton Authour and Professour of the Said Art. Approved by Both the Universities, and Are to be Sold at the Professours House in the Poultrey near the Church, [engraved title: 'Printed at Cambridge, by R[oger] D[aniel] and are to be sold at the author's house'], 1645
25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£800 - £1,200
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SHELTON (THOMAS)
Tachy-graphy. The Most Exact and Compendious Methode of Short and Swift Writing that Hath Ever Yet Been Published by Any. Composed by Thomas Shelton Authour and Professour of the Said Art. Approved by Both the Universities, and Are to be Sold at the Professours House in the Poultrey near the Church, additional engraved title, printed title within border of typographical ornaments, engraved tables, some browning and roughness at edges, engraved title neatly restored at inner margin, preliminary blank with newspaper cutting tipped-in with tape, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spine [Wing S3078], 16mo, [engraved title: 'Printed at Cambridge, by R[oger] D[aniel] and are to be sold at the author's house'], 1645
Footnotes
Rare early edition of Shelton's famous stenography manual, first published in 1626 under the title of Short-Writing. In Shelton's shorthand system, used by Pepys for his diary, every consonant is expressed by an easy-to-write symbol which sometimes resembles the alphabetical letter.
Seventeenth century editions rarely appear on the market. Auction records list four copies of editions dated 1674 or 1684, and a single copy of our 1645 edition (the Earl of Crawford's, which sold for £250 in 1944).