The young man's best companion; or, Self instructor : containing reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published; with instructions to qualify any person for business without the help of a master, merchants' accompts, book-keeping, method of measuring carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, masons, glaziers, painters' work, &c. and the mode of undertaking each work, and at what price; also gauging, dialling, dying, colouring, and making colours, likewise a description of England and Wales, and general observations on gardening for each month in the year; to which is added, a treatise on short-hand, a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy, containing a brief description of the different parts of the Earth, a survey of the celestial bodies, &c. and an introductory essay on the importance of knowledge. /
Parkins,Dr.
Tegg, Thomas,1776-1845,publisher.
London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, no. 111 Cheapside, and sold by Messrs. Duncans, Glasgow, and Mr. Sutherland, Edinburgh,
1811.
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
Young men
Shorthand.