2
Weston’s Short hand.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 54. no. 43, as above.
WESTON,
James.
Stenography compleated, or the Art of Short-Hand brought to Perfection; being the most Easy, Exact, Lineal, Speedy, and Legible
Method extant . . . Compos’d by James Weston, the only Author and Professor of this New Method.
London: Printed for the Author and Sold by Him at the Hand and Pen . . . Where he continues to teach this New Method,
1727.
Z56 .W535
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 4 parts in 1. 114 leaves, engraved throughout except for the prefatory matter and the
Observations at the end; 4 engraved frontispieces, one for each part, by J. Cole, the first a portrait of the author after J. Dowling.
Lowndes IV, 2388.
Westby-Gibson, page 232.
James Weston, fl. 1727, English teacher of shorthand.
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Pelham’s System of notation.
p. 8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 54. no. 42, as above.
PELHAM,
William.
A System of Notation; representing the Sounds of Alphabetical Characters by a new Application of the Accentual Marks in Present
Use: with such Additions as were necessary to supply Deficiencies. By William Pelham . . .
Boston: Printed [by
Munroe, Francis, & Parker] for W. Pelham,
1808.
PE1137 .A2 P4
First Edition. 12mo. in sixes. 150 leaves; A-Z, Aa
6, (U and W included in the full alphabet); the List of Subscribers on 3 ll. at the end, with
Books for Sale by William Pelham on the last page.
Not in Sabin.
Westby-Gibson, page 149.
Jefferson’s copy, together with an analysis of the work was a gift from the author, to whom Jefferson wrote from Washington
on July 12, 1808: “
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to m(
~
r)
Pelham and his thanks for the system of the notation of sounds which he has been so kind as to send him, and which he will
certainly peruse with pleasure at the first leisure moment. strongly sensible of the importance of a reformation in the notation
of the sounds of the English language, he yet despairs of it but in a small & slow way. Voltaire was all his life changing
an
o
into an a
in the word Français and others analogous to it, and yet has succeeded but partially . . .”
On May 23, 1809, Pelham wrote from Boston to Jefferson: “On the publication of my System of Notation I took the liberty of presenting you a copy and was much gratified by your favourable
acceptance of it. A Periodical work published in this town has lately presented an analysis of the work and I have had it
reprinted. I beg your acceptance of a copy.”
William Pelham, fl. 1809, bookseller and stationer of no. 59, Cornhill, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Miss Crownenshield’s specimens of penmanship.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 54. no. 4, [
should be “41”
according to NPT--
Ed.] Miss Crownenshield’s Specimens of Penmanship, 8vo MS.
This manuscript was sold to Congress in 1815.
It is entered in the 1815 catalogue, but is marked missing in the contemporary working copy and is omitted from the later
catalogues; it is included in the manuscript list of missing books made after 1815.
It was one of the three books advertised as having been stolen from the Library of Congress in the National Intelligencer, April 28, 1821, by George Watterston, “Librarian U. S. Library.” See Vol. V, no. 543.
Jefferson had the manuscript bound by Milligan in morocco, gilt, cost $1.25, listed on his bill under date March 8, 1809.
See no. 1071. [
i.e. “1074”--
Ed.]
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