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SIGN LANGUAGE and SHORTHAND. -- Digiti-Lingua.
An interesting selection, spanning an important period in the development of modern shorthand. Including:
Sign-language. -- Digiti-Lingua: or, The most compendious ... way of silent Converse. London: for P. Buck, 1698. 8° (175 x 105mm). Folding engraved plate. (Soiled). FIRST EDITION. Wing D-1472. [Bound with:]
William ADDY. Stenographia or The Art of Short-writing compleated. London: for the author and John Lawrence, 1695. 8°? (177 x 105mm). Engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece, title, decorations and text, portrait and final text leaf laid within marbled wrappers. Fourth? edition. Wing A-572. [With:]
The Methodist: or, a new method of reading, writing, and printing, all languages in Short-Hand London: 1741. 24° (130 x 62mm). (Small tears to the third and fifth leaves.) FIRST EDITION. ESTC t134477. Samuel JEAKE. The Elements of Short Hand. London: 1749. 4° (213 x 158mm). 4ll. (Torn and creased). Not in ESTC. [With:]
Nathaniell STRINGER. Rich Redivivus or Mr Jeremiah Richs Short-Hand ImProved. London: Richard Northcott, 1686. 8°? (184 x117mm). Engraved throughout, portrait, title, text, portrait and final text leaf laid within marbled wrappers. Provenance: Jane Sampson (inscription dated 1689); Third edition. Wing S-5977. -- and seven others, some imperfect, one in manuscript. Various formats. Contemporary sheep-backed boards (worn). Provenance: Andrew Gifford (1700-1784, assistant librarian at the British Museum, inscription, armorial bookplate, bequeathed to); Baptist College, Bristol (library, bookplate).
An interesting selection, spanning an important period in the development of modern shorthand. Including:
Sign-language. -- Digiti-Lingua: or, The most compendious ... way of silent Converse. London: for P. Buck, 1698. 8° (175 x 105mm). Folding engraved plate. (Soiled). FIRST EDITION. Wing D-1472. [Bound with:]
William ADDY. Stenographia or The Art of Short-writing compleated. London: for the author and John Lawrence, 1695. 8°? (177 x 105mm). Engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece, title, decorations and text, portrait and final text leaf laid within marbled wrappers. Fourth? edition. Wing A-572. [With:]
The Methodist: or, a new method of reading, writing, and printing, all languages in Short-Hand London: 1741. 24° (130 x 62mm). (Small tears to the third and fifth leaves.) FIRST EDITION. ESTC t134477. Samuel JEAKE. The Elements of Short Hand. London: 1749. 4° (213 x 158mm). 4ll. (Torn and creased). Not in ESTC. [With:]
Nathaniell STRINGER. Rich Redivivus or Mr Jeremiah Richs Short-Hand ImProved. London: Richard Northcott, 1686. 8°? (184 x117mm). Engraved throughout, portrait, title, text, portrait and final text leaf laid within marbled wrappers. Provenance: Jane Sampson (inscription dated 1689); Third edition. Wing S-5977. -- and seven others, some imperfect, one in manuscript. Various formats. Contemporary sheep-backed boards (worn). Provenance: Andrew Gifford (1700-1784, assistant librarian at the British Museum, inscription, armorial bookplate, bequeathed to); Baptist College, Bristol (library, bookplate).