A complete system of practical book-keeping, applicable to all kinds of business
Subtitle: exemplified in five sets of books, of individual and partnership concerns : arranged by single entry, double entry in present practice, and a new method of double entry by single, which obtains the same result by two entries as the present practice by four : with a comparison of these methods and an appendix containing queries and answers on the principles and practice of book-keeping on merchants' accounts, and on the nature and negotiation of inland and foreign bills of exchange with numerous exercises under each head for practice to which are added, a series of letters connected with the sets and an explanation of commercial terms : with engraved forms of the various accounts which occur in business designed for schools and counting-houses
By: by C. Morrison ...
Contributors: W. & D. Lizars.
Edition: Sixth edition, with valuable additions and improvements.
Publisher: Stirling, Kenney & Co.; Richard Griffin & Co.; Whittaker & Co., and Thomas Tegg & Son.
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Edinburgh; Glasgow; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Bookkeeping -- Technique.; Bookkeeping -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Complete system of practical book-keeping in five sets of books applicable to all kinds of business of individual and partnership concerns by single entry, double entry in present practice and a new method which obtains the same result by two entries, as the present practice by four :; Sixth edition of C. Morrison's practical book-keeping :
Notes: Added engraved t.p.

Plates are engraved examples of financial forms, ledgers and a letter.

Added t.p. with imprint: "W. H. Lizars Script. et Sculpt.".  Plates with imprint: "Engd. by W. H. Lizars Edinr.".

MASS copy: Bound in half calf and brown paper-covered boards with gold tooled lines on the spine.  Upper cover with paper label printed with a variation of the title, the date and "Price, 8  Half Bound Calf.".