The instructor, or, American young man's best companion
Subtitle: 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 a variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse ... also, merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and bookkeeping ... together with the method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers ... and painters work ...likewise, the practical gauger, made easy ... to which is added, The family's best companion ... and a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy ... also, several very useful tables
By: by George Fisher, accomptant.
Contributors: Fisher, A. 1719?-1778.
Edition: The thirtieth edition, revised corrected, enlarged and improved.
Publisher: Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas, for I. Thomas, in Worcester; J. Boyle, E. Battelle, W. Green, B. Larkin, and J. Condy, in Boston
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [Worcester, Mass.]
Subjects: Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
Other titles: Instructor; American young man's best companion