page_title: Edward Hatton (surveyor)
section_title: Professional activity
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Hatton (surveyor) / Professional activity
caption_attribution_description: English: Plate from Edward Hatton's The Merchant's Magazine or Tradesman's Treasury.
context_page_description: Edward Hatton was a surveyor for a fire insurance company in London who wrote A New View of London: or, an Ample Account of that City, in Two Volumes, or Eight Sections. &c., published anonymously in two octavo volumes 1708. The New View is an important reference to the streets, life and buildings of London not long after the Great Fire of London, 1666.
context_section_description: The work of professional surveyors developed greatly after the Great Fire and often included related and ancillary activities. Some taught mathematics, calling themselves "philomath", as Hatton did. Hatton published a book titled The Merchant's Magazine or Tradesman's Treasury (author "E. Hatton Gent". The work was intended as a primer in good business practice and subjects covered included arithmetic, book-keeping, trading practices and model business letters. Imaginary correspondents included Nicholas Needum, Lazarus Lackcash and Dives Doubledun. Also included were nine sample plates of penmanship relating to the rules of arithmetic. Later, Hatton was a subscriber to works on surveying and mathematics.
caption: A plate from Hatton's The Merchant's Magazine or Tradesman's Treasury
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