MARSH'S NEW MANUAL

OF

REFORMED

PHONETIC SHORT-HAND

BEING A

COMPLETE PROGRESSIVE GUIDE TO THE BEST SYSTEM

OF

Phonography and Verbatim Keporting

BY

ANDREW J. MARSH

REVISED BY

CLARENCE S. MERRILL

THE

TY

Third Edition

SAN FRANCISCO

THE BANCROFT COMPANY

1892

ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1883, BY

ANDREW J. MARSH,

IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON.

ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1889, BY THE BANCROFT COMPANY,

IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON.

Mr. Marsh's first work on shorthand, given to the public a number of years ago, is conceded by all phonographers acquainted with it to be the best ever published, and three-fourths, at least, of all the profession on the Pacific Coast use his system.

When first issued its sale was limited, and when the edition was exhausted, prices of $10 to $20 each were freely offered for second-hand copies.

Upon the occasion of the fire which destroyed our publishing house in 1886 the SECOND edition of Marsh's Manual was consumed. The demand, however, for the publication is so great that The Bancroft Company have decided to issue a THIRD edition, and they now offer to the public a much finer and more accurate Manual than either of its predecessors.

A complete copy of the edition of 1883 has been made by Mr. Clarence S. Merrill, an expert stenographer and Caligraph Typewriter operator, and his work has been carefully examined by Mr. Charles F. Whitton, official reporter of the Superior Court of Oakland, a writer of "pure Marsh" and the same gentleman who completed the edition of 1883 after Mr. Marsh's death.

Use of the progressive system of exercises has greatly added to the labor and expense of the work, but must be invaluable to the learner.

In order to produce this edition new plates had to be made, and in answer to a very general demand, and to improve its legibility and usefulness we have increased its size. A description of the methods employed may be interesting.

On account of the "progressive system" employed by Mr. Marsh, it was possible to set up only a portion of the work in type, and Mr. Merrill made the plates of the book on the Caligraph Typewriter, leaving blank spaces into which he inserted the shorthand characters with pen and ink. These pages were then photographed and reduced in size to two-thirds of their original dimensions, from which electrotypes were made and the book printed.

January 1, 1890.

THE BANCROFT COMPANY

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