The British youth's instructor: or, a new and easy guide to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, the Extraction and Use of the Square and Cube Roots, &c. Are so easily Treated of, and so plainly Demonstrated, That any Person may, of himself, (in a short Time) become acquainted with every Thing necessary to the Knowledge of Business. With a Postscript, For the Use of Country Youths in particular: Shewing how to measure any regular Piece of Timber, Tiling, Thatching, Brick-Work, or Piece of Land; as also how to guage any Cistern, Piece of Malt, or common Coller, Tub, &c. And to this edition is now first added, a compendious method of book-keeping, Whereby any one capable of subtracting one Sum of Money from another, may state and balance their own Accounts correctly, and have a clear View of all their Transactions. The Whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected, or have not had an Opportunity of becoming acquainted with F

People / Organizations

• Daniel Fenning (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for S. Crowder, No. 12, Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]

Publication year

1783-1783

ESTC No.

T133354

Grub Street ID

182173

Description

xi,[1],302,[2],2,3,[2],6,5,[2]p. : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

The 'Appendix: containing a concise method of book-keeping' has separate, varied pagination, but continuous register.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Price from imprint: price bound Three Shillings.