The instructor: or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier Way than any yet published; with instructions to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master; to write a variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse; Letters on Business or Friendship; Forms of Indentutes, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Receipts, Wills, Leafes, Releases, &c. Also Merchants Accompts and a short and easy Method of Shop and Book-Keeping; with a Description of the Counties and Market-Towns in England and Wales, and their Product. Together with the Method of measuring Carpenters, Joiners, Sawyers, Bricklayers, Plasters, Plumbers, Masons, Glaziers, and Painters Work, &c. The Mode of undertaking each Work. and at what Price; the Rates of each Commodity, and the common Wages of Journeymen; and a Description of Gunter's Line, and Coggeshail's Sliding-Rule. Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy; the Art of Dialling, and fixing Dials; with receipts for Dying, Colouring, and making Colours; and some General Observations for Gardening, through every Month in the Year. In this work is also given a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy; Containing A brief Description of the different Parts of the Earth, and a Survey of the Celestial Bodies. And some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, Accomptant.

  • Fisher, George, accomptant.
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1798
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London : printed for J. Johnson, G. G. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, J. Scatchard, W. Lowndes, J. Mathews, Vernor and Hood, G. Wilkie, J. Walker, T. N. Longman, W. Miller, H. D. Symonds, J. Nunn, Les and Hurst, and J. Wallis, 1798.

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xii,346,[2]p.,plate ; 120.

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The twenty-eighth edition, corrected and improved.

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ESTC T95726

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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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