Printed pamphlet titled 'Taylor's System of Shorthand Writing. Edited by Matthias Levy', with copy of Autograph Note Signed from shorthand writer Henry Dobell to 'Mr Cross', describing the copy as 'one of a very few in existence'.

PAMPHLET: 16pp., 12mo, and four plates of 'Taylor's System of Shorthand | as used by the Author.' Erratum slip. Stitched. In light-green printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Two page introduction by Levy, followed by three-page 'Preface to the Second Edition' by him, dated 'July, 1890'. The rest of the pamphlet consists of 'An Essay intended to establish a Standard for Stenography'. In his introduction Levy explains that 'numerous enquiries' have induced him 'to publish the following System of Shorthand, which was invented by Samuel Taylor and first published in 1786'. Levy had previously published 'The History of Shorthand Writing' (London: James Wade, 1885). NOTE: 1p., 4to. 'Dear Mr Cross | I am very pleased to ask you to accept the enclosed copy of Taylor. It is one of a very few in existence. | Yours faithfully, | Henry Dobell'. No copy of this second edition at the British Library, and the only copies on COPAC at Oxford, Cambridge and the National Library of Scotland. Three copies only on COPAC of the first edition (1862).