The tutor's assistant
Subtitle: being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book, containing ... : to which are added a new and very short method of extracting the cube-root, and a general table for the ready calculating the interest of any sum of money, at any rate per cent. likewise rents, salaries, &c. : the whole being adapted either as a question-book for the use of schools, or as a remembrancer and instructor to such as have some knowledge therein ...
By: by Francis Walkingame
Contributors: Crosby, T. (Thomas), editor; Wilson, Spence, and Mawman
Edition: A new ed. / corr., and every question worked anew by T. Crosby ...
Publisher: Printed for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman
Published: 1799
Place of publication: York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Tables; Bookkeeping
Notes: "This work having been perused by several eminent mathematicians and accomptants, is recommended as the best compendium hitherto published for the use of schools, or for private persons."

Advertisement on p. [3] dated York, January, 1799.

Signatures: A-Q6.

Not in English short title catalogue. Date on OCLC 63065562 (17[99]) indicates variant also not in English short title catalogue.

Rare Book copy: Red straight-grained morocco binding, double gilt fillets on sides, spine with minimal gilt decoration and lettering.

Rare Book copy: No. 1 of a bound volume of related works.
Table of contents: title: (from t. p.) I. Arithmetic in whole numbers ...; title: II. Vulgar fractions ...; title: III. Decimals, with the extraction of the square, cube, and biquadrate roots, after a very plain and familiar manner ...; title: IV. Duodecimals, or multiplication of feet and inches ...; title: V. The mensuration of circles; title: VI. A collection of questions set down promiscuously, for the greater trial of the foregoing rules.