The new tutor's assistant
Subtitle: being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book : the rules are versified, a plan entirely new and much better adapted to young minds than that of prose : containing ...
By: by Francis Walkingame, ...
Contributors: Scatcherd and Whitaker
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Scatcherd, and J. Whitaker, successors to E. Johnson, Ave-Mary-Lane
Published: 1781
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Tables; Bookkeeping
Notes: Publisher's advertisements on [5] p. at end of text.

Preface dated Great Russel-street, Bloomsbury, January, 1781.

Signatures: A-Q6.

Rare Book copy: Original sprinkled sheep binding, unlettered spine with gilt bands, joints repaired.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), 14607

Osborne catalogue, II:746

Available electronically and in microform.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Arithmetic in whole numbers; title: II. Vulgar fractions; title: III. Decimals, with the extraction of roots, Rules for calculating interest, annuities, pensions in arrears, the present worth of annuities, &c. either by simple or compound interest; title: IV. Duodecimals, applied to measuring, with proper examples; title: V. A collection of promiscuous questions; title: VI. A general table for calculating interest at any rate per cent, rents, salary, &c.