The American instructor: or, young man's best companion. Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic ... To which is added, the poor planter's physician. With instructions for marking on linnen; how to pickle and preserve; to make divers sorts of wine; and many excellent plaisters, and medicines, necessary in all families ... / By George Fisher, accomptant.
- Fisher, George, accomptant
- Date:
- 1779
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Boston : Printed for John Boyle and J.D. M'Dougall, 1779.
Physical description
vi, 378 pages : tables ; 17 cm (8vo)
Contributors
References note
Alston, IV.384
ESTC W11568
Evans, 16524
Notes
The attribution to Anne Slack (née Fisher) is wrong. George Fisher was a real person. The confusion possibly arose because of Mrs. Slack's maiden name and because she wrote a work called 'The pleasing instructor'.
Copy 1 Note: The matter has been briefly discussed by L.C. Karpinski, Scripta mathematica, 1935, 3, 337-39 [1979]
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/AM/USA.69