Containing Several Pieces of Useful Penmanship : Also an Essay on the First Invention of Writing: Compendiously Treating of the Whole Art : More Particularly, of Letters, Their Number, Order, and of how Many Variations Capable : of Their First Invention, by Ancient Writers Ascribed to Adam Himself, and for what Reasons : of Short-hand : of Secret Writing, Decypherable by the Key : of Arithmetick, &c. : of the Improvements of Writing, at Home and in Foreign Parts, with an Historical Account of the Most Eminent Professors of the Art : Also Maxims for Attaining Perfection in It, and Observations on the Extensive Use and Application Thereof