The instructor, or, American young man's best companion, improved
Subtitle: containing instructions for reading, writing (including the English grammar), arithmetic, merchants' accounts, mensuration, gauging according to the most modern and approved practice, and the art of dialling : also a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy, a short description of steam engines, and a table of specific gravities of bodies with rules for ascertaining the same : to which is added the rudiments of drawing, with several very useful tables, &c
By: by George Fisher, accomptant
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Bioren, No. 88 Chesnut-Street
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Handbooks, vade-mecums
Other titles: American instructor; or, Young man's best companion.; American young man's best companion.
Notes: Title of first American edition: The American instructor; or, Young man's best companion; cf. Rosenbach, cited below.

Engravings: frontispiece, illustrated plates. Wood engravings: text illustrations.

Has been erroneously ascribed to Mrs. Slack (i.e. Ann Fisher Slack), wte derhe name A. Fisher; cf. Brit. Mus. cat.; Halkett and Laing; L.C. Karpinski. The elusive George Fisher, accomptant. 1935.

Copyright notice on title-page verso.

Includes preface, index.

Caption title: The American young man's best companion.

Cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 31.