The Universal library of trade and commerce, or, A general magazine for gentlemen, ladies, merchants, tradesmen, school-masters, and all who are any ways concerned in business, or the education of youth of either sex, as well as for young clerks, apprentices, &c. &c. ...
By: by the most celebrated masters ; the plates engraved by Mr. George Bickham, and the best hands ; the whole examined and approv'd of by several eminent merchants.
Contributors: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?; Richards, William, Master of the Academy at Shadwell.
Publisher: Printed for J. Robinson ...
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Bookkeeping -- Early works to 1800.; Business mathematics -- Early works to 1800.; Copybooks.
Other titles: General magazine for gentlemen, ladies, merchants, tradesmen, school-masters, and all who are any ways concerned in business, or the education of youth of either sex, as well as for young clerks, apprentices, &c.; Compleat penman.
Notes: Plate [1] is a special engraved t.p. for the first part: The compleat penman, or, Young clerk's companion ... / by William Richards ... London : Printed for Samuel Birt ..., 1753.
Signatures: pi1 2pi² a-p⁴ *A-*I⁴ [A]⁴ B-H⁴ I².
LC copy imperfect: plates 5-10, 17-21, 43, 72, and 77-82 wanting. T.p. and first few leaves detached, badly worn, with slight loss of text.
Source: Gift of Ms. Laura J. Smyth, Nov. 20, 1991.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. The art of penmanship exemplified in all the various hands of Great-Britain, with an easy introduction for the use of the unlearned; title: II. A compleat system of arithmetic, adapted more particularly to trade and business; title: III. Directions for mercantile business in every branch, as well in the counting-house and ware-house, as by the water-side, with proper instructions for the management of foreign and inland bills of exchange; title: IV. An easy system of accounts on a new plan, contriv'd for the use of those whose business will not admit of the Italian method; title: V. A series of merchants accounts, or the Itatian [sic] method of book-keeping made plain and easy; title: VI. Tables of foreign coins, weights and measures, reduced to those of England; title: VII. A vocabulary, or explanation of terms used by merchants, tradesmen, &c.