Proposals for publishing, by subscription or order, in one volume, royal octavo, price half a guinea in boards, to be paid on delivery, or on subscription-at pleasure, an original work; never having been before attempted; of the most general use, viz. The estimate-book of rents, interests, and dividends; Of profits, losses, charges, allowances, ... differences in weights and measures of all kinds, in all countries, &c. &c. The universal tables, for buying, selling, and speculations, in lands, houses, the public funds, and the stocks of the public companies; and in every article of produce, manufacture, merchandize, &c. the per-cent-book. To which will be added, tables of annuities certain, annuities on lives, and assurances on lives. For the use of every person of property; ... and of every person in trade. ...With an introduction, containing familiar examples of the application of the tables, by inspection, to their extensive and various uses; to render the same perfectly easy to any person. By George Black. Among many other respectable gentlemen, and men of business, to whom the manuscript has been shewn, and whose approbation and recommendation the work has received, are the following: the Rev. Richard Price, D.D.F.R.S. &c. William Morgan, Esq. actuary of the Equitable Assurance Society. Thomas Coutts, Esq. and Co. bankers. Meses. R.H.G. & A.B. Drammond & Co. bankers. The Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice. Sir Robert Herries and Co. bankers. Charles Herries, and Co. merchants. Messrs. Moffatt, Kensingtons, and Boler, bankers. Peter Thellusson, Esq. and sons, merchants. Messrs. Thorntons and Smalley, merchants. Alex. Trotter, Esq. pay-master of the navy. The subscriptions have also received the liberal and respectable lead subjoined to these proposals.