The instructor: or, Young man's best companion.
Subtitle: Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. : Instructions to write variety of hands ... How to write letters ... Forms of indentures ... releases, &c. : Also merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping ... : Together with the method of measuring carpenters ... and painters work ... : Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. : To which is added, the family's best companion ... and a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy ... also some useful interest-tables.
By: By George Fisher, accountant.
Contributors: Slack, Ann Fisher, 1719-1778.; Thackera, James, 1767-1848, engraver.
Edition: The twenty-first edition corrected and improved.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 14458.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Isaac Collins
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Burlington [N.J.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Business mathematics.; Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
Notes: Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing.

Typographically identical, except for the title page, with the issue with title: The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion ... Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ... MDCCLXXXVII. The frequent use of the date 1787 in examples (e.g., p. 166) confirms that year as date of publication.

Signatures: [A]œ́ B-Qœ́ 2I-2Qœ́ R-2Aœ́ (N3 missigned L4)

Error in paging: p. 353-354 misnumbered 253-254.

Frontispiece engraved by James Thackera.

Evans 14458.

Humphrey, C.H.  New Jersey, 143.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14458)