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, bills, bonds, indentures, leases and releases, letters of attorney, wills, &c. A short and easy method of shop and book-keeping, merchants-accompts, &c. Directions how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, 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. ... 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

People / Organizations

• Richard Ware I ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for R. Ware, in Amen-Corner; J. Clarke, in Duck-Lane; and T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1741. The sixteenth edition, with large additions and improvements.; ..

Added name

Mynde, James, 1702-1771, engraver.; Ware, Richard (Bookseller), bookseller.; Clarke, John, active approximately 1730-1755, bookseller.; Longman, Thomas, 1699-1755, bookseller.

Publication year

1741

ESTC No.

T505208

Grub Street ID

401296

Description

[12], 445, [3] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12°.

Note

Etched and engraved frontispiece signed "J. Mynde Sc."; Below imprint in square brackets: Price two shillings and six-pence

With three final pages of advertisements

Signatures: A]6] B-T]1]2] U]6] X]2.