<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Stenography compleated, or The art of short-hand brought to perfection; being the most easy, exact, lineal, speedy, and legible method extant ...</dc:title><dc:creator>Weston, James</dc:creator><dc:date>1727.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>BEIR WB 40716: Armorial bookplate: James Spearing.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIR WB 40716 copy 4: Armorial bookplate: William Middleton, Esqr.</dc:description><dc:description>Parts [2]-[4] have special t.p.; pt. [2]: Directions for writing shorthand ... pt. [3]: A dictionary, or An alphabetical table, containing almost all the words in the English tongue, with the short-hand over-against each word ... pt. [4]: Observations, and explications ...</dc:description><dc:description>Engraved, with the exception of 8 p. following general t.p., and pt. [4], p. 1-16.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>