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The ready reckoner : or Trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale or retail. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from half a farthing to twenty shilling, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value or any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, a table of simple and compound interest. By Daniel Fenning,[.].

Author/creator Fenning, Daniel
Format Electronic and Book
EditionThe sixth edition.
Publication Info[Boston] : London, printed. Boston: re-printed, by John W. Folsom, no. 2, Ann-Street, for J. Boyle, no. 18, and E. Battell, no. 43, Marlboro'-Street, and B. Larkin, no. 46, Cornhill, [1785?]
Description4 unnumbered pages, 166, 2 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorFolsom, John West, 1758-1825, printer.
Other author/creatorBoyle, John, 1746-1819, bookseller.
Other author/creatorBattelle, Ebenezer, 1754-1818, bookseller.
Other author/creatorLarkin, Benjamin, 1754-1803, bookseller.
General noteEdition statement transposed; precedes "By Daniel Fenning," on title page.
General noteDate of publication suggested by Bristol. Folsom was at no. 2 Ann Street during the years 1785-6 only.
General noteReproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
References Bristol, B6064
References Shipton & Mooney, 44682
References English Short Title Catalog, W19345.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Other titleReady reckoner.

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