The pocket companion, or, Every man his own lawyer
By: by a Gentleman of the bar ; laid down in so plain a manner, that the farmer, mechanic, apprentice, or school boy, can draw any instrument of writing, without the assistance of an attorney ; prefaced with several pages of scrip ; showing a correct form in which an instrument of writing should be drawn, and to instruct those who wish to improve their hand writing at leisure hours, at home, without the instruction of a teacher
Contributors: Johnson, Lawrence, 1801-1860, stereotyper; W.A. Leary & Co
Publisher: Printed and published by M'Carty and Davis, no. 171 Market Street
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Other titles: Every man his own lawyer; Pocket companion
Notes: "Stereotyped by L. Johnson."

The copyright notice on the verso of the t.p. is signed by D. Caldwell, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and dated February 28, 1826.

Title and text printed within a double-rule border.

Text parallel to spine.

Includes index.

A patriotic illustration of a draped figure (female? American Indian?) holding a U.S. flag and riding on a bald eagle over a landscape with [Niagara?] waterfalls, factories, ships, and a train, appears on p. [4] of the cover.

SCDIRB copy 39088006530653 has printed bookseller's label on front paste-down endpaper: From W.A. Leary & Co.'s Cheap Book Store, no. 138 North 2d St., 10 doors below New, Philada.

SCDIRB copy has the publisher's printed brown paperboard binding with gilt-ruled blue cloth spine.