‎PITMAN Alfred - Presentation copy :‎
‎Half a Century of commercial education and publishing. Alfred Pitman Governing director, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. Foreword by Sir Francis Goodenough.‎

‎"14. Bath, The Pitman Press, s.d. (23rd August 1953), printed for private circulation, in-8°, frontispiece portrait of the author + 154 pp + 4 photo-ills., index. Bound in full dark blue morocco, front and back cover with elaborate gilttooling with fillets and fleurons, the petals of the large fleurons are inlaid with red leather, centerpiece contains the motto Fortiter Agendo. The back cover has as its centerpiece the initials of the author A.P., top edge gilt, raised decorated spine. Kept in box. Very fine unsigned binding but almost certainly made at the Bath workshop Bayntun. Presentation copy from the publisher, the Pitman Company, to the author and former director on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Tipped-in at the second fly-leaf is a typescripted note; ''Presented to Alfred Pitman...''. The history of ''Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.'' written by his son Alfred Pitman. In 1837 Sir Isaac invented a shorthand system called ''Phonography'' which was to become a widely used shorthand system . He founded the company to publish handbooks and periodicals to promote his system. Later on when Remington patented his typewriter (1867), Pitman devised also educational systems for efficient use of the typewriter and office automation in general. His company became a leading provider of commercial education systems during the last quarter of the 19th and first half of the 20th century."‎

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