The complete merchant's clerk : or, British and American compting-house
Subtitle: in two parts ... to which is added, an appendix : shewing the method of drawing common and current accompts, bills of exchange, accompts-sales, &c. With an acount of the course of exchange with Jamaica ...
By: by William Weston ...
Contributors: Donham, Wallace Brett, 1877-1954, former owner
Publisher: printed by Charles Rivington, for R. Griffiths, ... and sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland
Published: 1754
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Bookkeeping; Early works to 1800; Accounting; Account books; Merchants; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Complete merchant's clerk; British and American compting-house
Notes: Numerous blanks throughout.

The folded leaves are letterpress tables.

Advertisement on prelim. p. [2], facing t.p., reads: "At the French School, in Queen-Street, near the Seven-Dials, London; Youth are educated, boarded, and qualified for business. By W. Weston, and proper masters."

Historical accounting literature p. 80
Table of contents: title: Part I. Contains a system of book-keeping, according to the Italian form of debtor and creditor by double entry, as practised at this time by the merchants of Great-Britain, &c. ...; title: Part II. Contains book-keeping in factory, by double entry, as at present used in the Islands of Barbadoes, Nevis, St. Christophers, and other of His Majesty's principal settlements in the West-Indies; but in a more particular manner, applied to the island of Jamaica ... together with a summary of book-keeping for the wharf, or plantation: calculated for such, as have occasion to go to the West-Indies in quality of a factor, clerk, wharfinger, plantation-clerk, or overseer ...