A Complete System of Stenography, or Short-Hand Writing

(New London (Conn.)): S. Green, 1823. Small octavo in pale multi-color (peach-pink, light blue-green anb dark blue) marbled paper-backedboards with green leather spine. 12 p., x plates.; 20 cm. Two titles pages (the first handsomely engraved and illustrated; the second printed. Front free endpaper neatly lacking, leaves (especially endpapers) lightly foxed; boards mildly shelf-worn; binding tight. Overall about very good. Contemporary pencil notation and practice marks to a few pages. Some plate leaves appear to have been trimmed. . Hardcover.

Scarce and very early (perhasp earliest) American prointed work on stenography // . Shorthand. Stenography. Writing systems. Secretarial skills.