The instructor: or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master. Instructions to write Variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse. How to write Letters on Business or Friendship. Forms of Indentures, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Receipts, Wills, Leases, Releases, &c. Also Merchants Accompts, and a short and easy Method of Shop and Book-Keeping; with a Description of the Product, Counties and Market-Towns in England and Wales. Together with the Carpenter's Plain and Exact Rule: Shewing how to measure Carpenters, Joiners, Sawyers, 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 Gunter's Line, and Coggeshall's Description of the Sliding-Rule. Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy; the Art of

People / Organizations

• George Fisher accomptant (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster Row, M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]

Publication year

1748-1748

ESTC No.

T210906

Grub Street ID

238791

Description

xii,384p.,plates : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

Price from imprint: Price 2 s. 6 d.

Uncontrolled note

This edition not in Alston