The American instructor: or, 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 variety of hands ... How to write letters on business or friendship. Forms of indentures ... releases, &c. : Also merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping. : Together with a method of measuring carpenters ... and painters work ... : Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. : With instructions how to pickle and preserve; to make divers sorts of wine; and many excellent plasters and medicines, necessary in all families. : A compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy. Also some useful interest-tables.
By: By George Fisher, accountant. ; With alterations and amendments adapted to the use of the youth of the United States of America
Contributors: Fisher, A. 1719?-1778; Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20709
Publisher: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market Street.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Business mathematics; Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Notes: Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing

Textually and typographically identical, except for the title page, with the issue with title: The instructor, or Young man's best companion ... Burlington: Printed by Isaac Collins, M,DCC,LXXV [i.e. 1787]

Errors in paging: p. 353, 354 misnumbered 253, 254

Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara

Evans 20709

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20709)