Arts advancement or The most exact, lineal, swift, short, and easy method of short-hand-writing hitherto extant

Folger bibliographic ID: 152257
ESTC number: R33503
Wing number: M941
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 206771

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

Engraved throughout on facing pages. Includes frontis. portrait of author At foot of title page: Ben: Rhodes sculpsit Text (paginated sequence) on facing pages, opposing pages (unpaginated sequence) blank

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print

Extended title: Arts advancement or The most exact, lineal, swift, short, and easy method of short-hand-writing hitherto extant : is now (after a view of all others, and above twenty years practice) built on a new foundation, & raised to a higher degree of perfection than was ever before attained by any. Invented & composed by William Mason teacher of the art, in Princes Court in Loathbury, neare the Royal Exchange; London. Where these books are to be had, & such as desire to learn, may (by him) be expediciously taught, at very reasonable rates

Shorthand

author: Mason, William, active 1672-1709
printmaker: Rhodes, Ben