The instructor; or, Young man's best companion. : Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. Instructions to write [a] 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, plasterers, 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 jouney-men, with the description of Gunters's Line, and Coggeshall's Sliding rule. The practical gauger made easy; the art of dialling, and how to erect and fix 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. /
Fisher, George(Accomptant)
Ludlow, William H.,active 1777,former owner.StEdNL
Nichols, Samuel,of Plymouth,active 1823,former owner.StEdNL
Nelson, William,of Plymouth,active 1823,former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh: : Printed by and for Gavin Alston, Dunbar's Close.,
M D C C L X X I. [1771]
ESTC
Microfilm.
Manuscript inscription on the front pastedown "Wm H Ludlow his book 1777". Below that in a different hand "Samuel Nichols his book given him by Willm Nelson the 1 day of August 1823". Signature of "Samuel Nichols" in the margin of page 291. Manuscript inscription on the back pastedown ""Samuel Nichols his book Plymouth given him by Wil'lm Nelson Plymouth August the 1d. 1823".
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