Book - The "Palantype" Method of Stenotyping

[Jack Chidley]

To those people who are looking for this book and are wondering why they can't find one I have an explanation.  At least I have an explanation for why you can't find this in public libraries. 

As for as I can tell, after searching both Copc and WorldCat, the British Library in London is the only public institution that has a copy.  Its copy is a "legal deposit" - every book published in the UK has to submit a copy to 4 libraires in the UK and this is called a "legal deposit", these libraries are known as the Copyright libraries. 

Legal deposit copies are not allowed to leave the premesis, so they can't be sent anywhere.  The legal deposit mark is the blue stamp on a few of the pages of the copy that I am looking at right now.

[Jack Chidley]

Here's a follow up.  This book covers the orginal Palantype keyboard layout and method.  When Possum Controls Ltd introduced a newer version, in the 90s, they changed the layout slightly and also provided a new manual. 

There is a version of that manual called:

Possum Palantype C.A.T. System

Operator Training Course

Copyright Possum Controls Limited, 1997

There may well be other manuals available too.  I am hoping that at least one current Palantypist will show, lend or sell me one.  But I am not willling to pay the hundreds, or thousands, of pounds that they orginally cost.

The British Library has no copies of later training manuals.  At least none that I have found yet.