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Wunderlich enamelled bronze letters : an innovation of recent development ; offering Architects a metal lettering of distinguished quality - combining the richness of bronze with the lustrous beauty of ceramic colouring / Wunderlich Limited.

For full bibliographic record see our Library Catalogue .

Linear phonography [microform] : a natural system of short-hand, for general use, with an easy stenography for reporting purposes

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada

Letterpress copybook, 1874 November-1875 March

Includes portion of a piece of writing, possibly journal entries describing his daily activities in Japan, that continues from the pervious volume (August-November 1874)

Letterpress copybook, 1874 August-November

Includes portion of a piece of writing, possibly journal entries describing Lyman's daily activities in Japan, that continues in the next volume (November 1874-March 1875)

Mack shorthand [microform] : a connective-vowel system for everybody

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada

American manual of phonography [microform] : being a complete guide to the acquisition of Pitman's phonetic shorthand

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service

Biography of Zadock Pratt, of Prattsville, N. Y. To which are appended a portion of his addresses, letters, congressional reports, and speeches

Presentation copy from Pratt to George Bancroft, and additions in Pratt's handwriting

Daniel's practical shorthand [microform] : designed for class or self-instruction

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the British Columbia Archives and Records Service, Victoria

A New System of English Shorthand based on the Principles of W. Stolze

This copy is from the Louis Leslie Collection but it was missing the very import "Key to Plate I", page 48, so I have added it from the Google Books copy.

Johnson's Canadian school-shorthand [microform]

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada

Alphabets And Lettering

This is a copy of Alphabets and Lettering with Esterbrook Drawlet Pens. Zaner wrote the same so prior to 1918.

Zaner & Bloser Method Writing: Manual 96

Full title: Zaner & Bloser Method Writing, Based on Arm Movement: Manual 96 . Published circa 1923, during the heyday of this style, “Manual 96” is a great little book for…

Letterpress copybook, 1881 January-1882 April

First several letters written from Shanghai, China and Calcutta, India before Lyman's return to the United States

Lessons in Professional Writing PAJ by C. P. Zaner, 1895

C. P. Zaner (1895) - a course of lessons for American penmanship in the Ornamental or Artistic style from the Penman's Art Journal vols. 19-20

Short-hand execution. Applicable to any system of stenography for the purpose of multiplying speed...

80 pages 18 cm

Baker's practical stenography;

vii, 69 p. 20 cm

One step further in stenography

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Methodical Text Book to Round Writing: for Self-Instruction and for Use in Schools

This is a practical instruction manual for "Round Writing" - a style of calligraphy also known as German Roundhand ( Rundschrift ), or French Roundhand ( la Ronde ). Friedrich…

Stenography; or, A brief and simple system of short-hand

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Unified stenography; the simplest and most uniform of any of the Pitmanic systems

64 p. 18 cm

Writing Lessons for Primary Grades

Clyde C. Lister (1866-1940) was “one of America's best-known and beloved members of the penmanship profession.” (Obituary in The Educator, Apr. 1940, p. 22.) Quoting from the…

Lightning educator in stenography;

1 p.l., 1 sheet (22 x 53 cm.) fold. to 22 x 19 cm

PRACTICAL STENOGRAPHY; OR SHORT-HAND

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

An introduction to Byrom's universal English shorthand: For the use of schools, and private tuition

London : Bayley 1821 Location/Holding institution: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 40.2252

Alphabets A Manual Of Letter Design With Complete Alphabets Of Varied Styles Of Lettering

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.167267 dc.contributor.author: Douglas C. Mcmurtrie dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-07T00:53:11Z dc.date.available…

A Manual of Current Shorthand: Orthographic and Phonetic by Henry Sweet

ManualCurrentShorthandOrthographicPhoneticSweet.pdf: full archival PDF of the Manual, primarily handwritten. sweetManualPhoneticTyped.pdf: A typed-out portion of the manual…

The Shorthand Writer A Complete Guide

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.201800 dc.contributor.author: Thomas Allen Reed dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-09T12:40:17Z dc.date.available: 2015-07-09T12:40:17Z…

Pernin's universal phonography in ten lessons. The simplest, most legible and rapid shorthand method in the world ..

214 p. 19 cm

Letterpress copybook, 1885 June-1886 February

Part of the Benjamin Smith Lyman Papers (MS 190)

Pernin's universal phonography in ten lessons : the simplest, most legible and rapid shorthand method in the world ... for schools and private study

214 p

The art of phonography : a complete instructor in the best method of shorthand for all kinds of verbatim work ; with the author's latest improvements

xxii, 455 p. ; 19 1/2 cm

Lindsay's simplified shorthand; a system without shading, in which the vowels are expressed by the inclination of the stems to a real or an imaginary horizontal line

3 p.l., 5-59 p. 23 cm

Letterpress copybook, 1884 June-1885 June

Part of the Benjamin Smith Lyman Papers (MS 190)

Letterpress copybook, 1886 March-1887 March

Part of the Benjamin Smith Lyman Papers (MS 190)

Letterpress copybook, 1887 June-1888

Part of the Benjamin Smith Lyman Papers (MS 190)

Text-Book of Light-Line Shorthand

This is a re-created PDF using the high-quality scans of this book already on archive.org. The PDF version previously available on this site uses too much compression of the…

Pocknell's Legible shorthand. : An original work, showing how, by the discovery of systematic and...

xix, 87 p. ; 19 cm

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