The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful, by saving much time in fasting up what is here correctly done to their hands. To which are added, a table, shewing the number of days from any day in one month, to the same day in any other month; tables of interest, of the value of annuities., of brokerage, of expences, income, &c. A set of tax tables; an alphabetical list of the most common stamp duties; two tables, shewing the amount of every species of government stock and a comparative view of the price of stocks; and a table of the dimensions of the standard Winchester bushel, &c. By Daniel Fenning, author of the Royal English dictionary, Young man's book of knowledge. Use of the globes, The universal spelling book, A new English grammar, and others. The eleventh edition, with additions on board and timber measure, brick work, and guaging by the pen and slip-rule. Carefullly revised and corrected, by Joseph Moon, mathematician, Salisbury.

Date:

1797