The instructor: or, Young man's best companion : 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 George Fisher, accountant.
| Author/creator |
Fisher, George (Accomptant) |
| Other author/creator | Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778. |
| Other author/creator | Thackara, James, 1767-1848 engraver. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | The twenty-first edition corrected and improved. |
| Publication Info | Burlington [N.J.]. : Printed and sold by Isaac Collins, M,DCC.LXXV [i.e., 1787] |
| Description | xii, 372 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14458. ^A478749 |
| General note | Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | Error in paging: p. 353-354 misnumbered 253-254. |
| General note | Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara. |
| References | Evans 14458 |
| References | Humphrey, C.H. New Jersey, 143 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14458). |
| Genre/form | Textbooks. |
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