The instructor; or, Young man's best companion [electronic resource] : Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies. How to write letters on business or friendship; forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Merchants accounts, 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, and a list of English and Scots fairs according to the new style. The method of measuring carpenters, joiners, 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 journey men, with the description of gunter's line, and coggeshall's sliding rule. The practical gauger made easy; the art of dialing, and how to erect and six dials; with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours; and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which are added, the family's best companion; and a compendium of geography and astronomy. Also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, accountant.
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Edinburgh :
Printed by David Paterson, for J. Spottiswood bookseller there,
1784.
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