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The instructor [electronic resource] : or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading...

The instructor [electronic resource] : or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading...

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The instructor [electronic resource] : or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master. Instructions to write Variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse. How to write Letters on Business or Friendship. Forms of Indentures, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Receipts, Wills, Leases, Releases, &c. Also Merchants Accompts, and a short and easy Method of Shop and Book-Keeping; with a Description of the Product, Counties, and Market-Towns in England and Wales. Together with the Carpenters Plain and Exact Rule: Shewing how to measure Carpenters, Joyners, Sawyers, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Masons, Glasiers and Painters Work. How to undertake each Work, and at what Price; the Rates of each Commodity, and the common Wages of Journeymen; with Gunter's Line, and Coggeshall's Description of the Sliding-Rule. Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy; the Art of Dialling, and how to erect and fix any Dial; with Instructions for Dying, Colouring, and making Colours; and some General Observations for Gardening every Month in the Year. To which is added, the family's best companion: 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: and also, a compleat treatise of farriery: Or, Good Advice to Gentlemen and Farmers; with a choice Collection of Remedies, very fit for all Farriers and Grooms. By George Fisher, Accomptant.

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The instructor [electronic resource] : or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master. Instructions to write Variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse. How to write Letters on Business or Friendship. Forms of Indentures, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Receipts, Wills, Leases, Releases, &c. Also Merchants Accompts, and a short and easy Method of Shop and Book-Keeping; with a Description of the Product, Counties, and Market-Towns in England and Wales. Together with the Carpenters Plain and Exact Rule: Shewing how to measure Carpenters, Joyners, Sawyers, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Masons, Glasiers and Painters Work. How to undertake each Work, and at what Price; the Rates of each Commodity, and the common Wages of Journeymen; with Gunter's Line, and Coggeshall's Description of the Sliding-Rule. Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy; the Art of Dialling, and how to erect and fix any Dial; with Instructions for Dying, Colouring, and making Colours; and some General Observations for Gardening every Month in the Year. To which is added, the family's best companion: 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: and also, a compleat treatise of farriery: Or, Good Advice to Gentlemen and Farmers; with a choice Collection of Remedies, very fit for all Farriers and Grooms. By George Fisher, Accomptant.

Publisher

London : printed for C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion, in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XLII. [1742]

Date

M.DCC.XLII. [1742]

Record Identifier

74VvLbeWW6yM

MMS ID

991010797599702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xii,380,[4]p.,plates ; 12°.

Publication information

Publisher

London : printed for C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion, in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XLII. [1742]

Edition

The sixth edition revised and corrected.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

M.DCC.XLII. [1742]

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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The instructor [electronic resource] : or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master. Instructions to write Variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse. How to write Letters on Busine...

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General note

Price from imprint: Price 2 s. 6 d.

Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA).

With two final advertisement leaves.

Citation / References Note

ESTC N8728.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VvLbeWW6yM

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvLbeWW6yM

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MMS ID

991010797599702626