The instructor, or, American 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 a variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse ... also, merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and bookkeeping ... together with the method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers ... and painters work ...likewise, the practical gauger, made easy ... to which is added, The family's best companion ... and a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy ... also, several very useful tables
By: by George Fisher, accomptant.
Contributors: Fisher, A. 1719?-1778.; Fisher, George, accomptant.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle for said Thomas, in Worcester, Massachusetts, said Thomas and Andrews, D. West and E. Larkin, Jun. in Boston
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Instructor; American young man's best companion
Notes: Evans 27706
Published also under title: The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion.
Erroneously attributed to Mrs. Slack (Anne Fisher) by Evans.
Signatures: A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2H⁶.
Includes index.
LC copy has inscription: Sullivan Burbank, Boston, August 28th, 1797.