The instructor; or, Young man's best companion. Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. Instructions to write a variety of hands, with copies. How to write letters of business or friendship; forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties, market towns in England and wales; and a list of English and Scots fairs according to the new style. The method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawers, bricklayers, plaisterers, plumbers, masons, glasiers, and painters work. How to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen, with the description of Gunter's line, and Coggeshall's sliding rule. The practical gauger made easy; the art of dialling, and how to erect and six dials; with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours; a
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- Imprint
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Glasgow : Printed for James Duncan, Bookseller, Trongate, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
- Publication year
- 1786
- ESTC No.
- N68251
- Grub Street ID
- 49700
- Description
- 375,[1]p. : ill. ; 12°.