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(SHORTHAND.). TAYLOR, SAM[UE]L. An Essay Intended to Establish a Standard for an Universal System of Stenography, or Short Hand Writing. Albany, [N.Y.]: Websters and Skinner for James Cation, [1810]. 1st American ed. 8vo. 80 pp. 11 plates. Contemp. two-toned boards, uncut. Spine chipped, but very nice. $275.00
S & S 21466. See Westby-Gibson, Bibliography of Shorthand, p. 216. "This system [of Taylor's] did more than any of its predecessors to establish the art [of shorthand] in England and abroad....Taylor's system was republished again and again" (EB 11) and was the basis for the system developed by Pitman. A key work on the history of stenography.