The instructor: 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 ... How to write letters ... Forms of indentures ... releases, &c. : Also merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping ... : Together with the method of measuring carpenters ... and painters work ... : Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. : To which is added, the family's best companion ... and a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy ... also some useful interest-tables. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, George, accomptant
Other Authors: Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778, Thackara, James, 1767-1848 (Engraver)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Edition:The twenty-first edition corrected and improved.
Series:Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 14458.
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Online Access:Evans Digital Edition
Description
Item Description:Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing.
Typographically identical, except for the title page, with the issue with title: The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion ... Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ... MDCCLXXXVII. The frequent use of the date 1787 in examples (e.g., page 166) confirms that year as date of publication.
Error in paging: pages 353-354 misnumbered 253-254.
Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:xii, 372 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm. (duodecimo)
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:United States -- New Jersey -- Burlington.