The phonographic manual

by Benn Pitman

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Cincinnati: Phonographic Institute, 1856. 12mo, pp. 92, 40 ; lithograph title page and lithographic plates of shorthand throughout; original black calf blind- and gilt-stamped, marbled edges; textblock shaken edges worn, good and sound. An early possibly second edition of Benn Pitman's American shorthand manuals. Benn moved to Cincinnati soon after arriving in the US in 1853 and worked diligently to spread his brother Isaac's system of shorthand through the

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