Brachygraphy: . or an easy and compendious system of short-hand, adapted to the various arts, sciences and professions;.
Thomas Gurney (1705-1770)
Category
Books
Date
1778
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 3117125
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],iii,[1],xv,[55]p.,plates . port.. . 16mo.. Signed in manuscript at end of text 'Number 4616 Joseph Gurney'. With manuscript notes, mostly critical on endleaves, signed 'H.C. Wraith 21 May 1826'.. Provenance: H.C. Wraith. Armorial bookplate, with motto 'Tour jours pret'. Bottom section, with name of owner, cut off.. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf. Disintegrated. Partially stuck together with twentieth-century brown gummed-paper tape. Marks where more of the same has been removed from binding.
Makers and roles
Thomas Gurney (1705-1770) Joseph Gurney (1744-1815)