Stenography: Or, a Concise and Practical System of Short-hand Writing. to Which is Added, an Appendix, Containing a Brief Survey of

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT094610"To prevent the public being imposed upon by any spurious edition .. every genuine copy of it signed .. ."London: printed for the author, and sold by him, also by W. Brown, 1782. 60,62p.,8 plates; 12 Contributor Bio:  Williamson, William William Williamson is the author of SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, the first two novels of his Florida Keys trilogy. The final novel, SOME CAME NAKED has a publication date for 2015. His short stories have been previously published in three Key West anthologies, Once Upon an Island, Beyond Paradise and Mango Summers featuring new Key West authors. He is also the author of a collection of short stories titled, Jack, Beans and Muffins and seventeen books of prose poetry. Bar Snatch Tonight We're Serving Insanity for Supper A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals Millennium Maladies Sixty Nine Poems on a Sundog Day A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight Last Call, Selected Bar Prose After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II A Madness is Within Reach Inside of All of Us A Murmur Escaped from her Lips as his Hands Traced her Hips Accept No Presents and Give No Pardons, a Poet is on his Own At Odds with the Flavor of the Union First and Last Impressions from the Lost and Found Forgotten Notes from Nights of Ill-gotten Grandeur Last Night of the Orphan Poems Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked You'll be my Monkey and I'll be the Proudest Palm Tree You ever Seen William's books are available in both paper and as E-books at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. To read more of William's work, visit William Williamson.com and Poetscrib.com Check William out @Facebook.com