The young man's companion: or Arithmetick made easy. Containing, plain directions for a young man to attain to read and write true English; the best and easiest instructions for writing variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse, digested in an alphabetical order. How to write letters of compliment, friendship, or business. Forms of notes, receipts, bill, bonds, indentures, leases and releases, letters of attorney, wills, &c. Directions how to measure carpenters, joyners, swayers, bricklayers, plaisterers, plummers, masons, glaziers, and painters work. With tables for such as have not learn'd arithmetick. How to compute the charge of building an house, or any part thereof. The rates measuring, gauging, plotting of land by Gunter's chain, and taking heights and distances by the quadrant, &c. of Gunter's line in measuring globes, bullets, walls, &c. The art of dialling, and how to direct and fix any dial: instructions for dying, colouring, and making of colours. With a descriptio

People / Organizations

• W Mather (Author)
• Richard Ware I ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for R. Ware, on Ludgate-Hill; T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row; and W. Johnston, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1752. The nineteenth edition, with large additions and improvements.; ..

Publication year

1752

ESTC No.

T178008

Grub Street ID

214935

Description

[20],445,[3]p.,plates,tables : ill.,map ; 12°.

Note

Price on title page: (Price Two Shillings and Six-pence.)