An essay intended to establish a standard for an universal system of stenography, or, short-hand writing..

by Samuel Taylor

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Albany: reprinted from the London copy for James Cation, by Websters & Skinner, 1810 . First American edition, 8vo, pp. 11 , 12-80; 11 engraved plates of shorthand at the back; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; spine partially perished but on the whole a very good, sound copy. Introduced in England in 1786, Taylor shorthand was an influential and dominant system of shorthand until it was eventually superseded by Pitman. Indeed,

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