The newest young man's companion. Containing, a compendious English grammar. Instructions to write variety of hands with Copies both in Prose and Verse. Letters on Compliment, Business, and several other Occasions. Forms of Indentures, Wills, Testaments, Letters of Attorney, Bills, Receipts, Releases, Acquittances, &c. Arithmetic and book-keeping in an Easier Way than any yet published. A Compendium of Geography, Describing all the Empires, Kingdoms, and Dominions, of the whole World. To which is added a Description of the several Counties of England and Scotland, their Produce, Market-Towns and Market-Days. The Management of Horses. Being Directions for Travellers to prevent and cure most Dissempers which are incident to Horses. The Art of Painting in Oil and Water Colours, With Directions for Colouring Maps and Gilding with Gold, &c. Tables shewing Accompts ready cast up; The Value of foreign Gold; and the two great Roads from Edinburgh to London. The Exports and Imports of Great Britain to and from foreign Nations. A List of English Manufactures, &c. and An English Spelling Dictionary. The whole calculated to qualify persons for business, without the Help of a Moster, and illustrated with a Map of the World. By Thomas Wise, Accomptant.

  • Wise, Thomas (Accountant)
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MDCCLX. [1760]
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Berwick : printed and sold by R. Taylor, and by all the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLX. [1760]

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[6],402,[2]p.,plate ; 120.

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The fourth edition, greatly enlarged and improved.

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ESTC N5732

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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