The instructor, or, American Young man's best companion : containing instructions for reading, writing, arithmetic, merchants' accounts, mensuration, gauging, the art of dialling, dying and making colours, pickling, preserving, and the art of making several sorts of wines : also a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy, with several very useful tables : to which is added some general observations on gardening for every month of the year, &c. &c. / by George Fisher.
| Author/creator | Fisher, George |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed and sold by John Bioren, 1801. |
| Description | 346 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 498. ^A575643 |
| General note | Pages 118 and 262 numbered 811 and 263 respectively. Pages 131-132 numbered in duplicate. |
| General note | Published also under title: The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion. |
| General note | Has been erroneously ascribed to Mrs. Slack (i.e. Ann Fisher Slack) who wrote under the name, A. Fisher. cf British Museum Catalogue; Halkett and Laing; Archaelogia aelinana of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3rd. ser., vol. 3, 17 and 18; L. C. Karpinski, "The elusive George Fisher, accomptant", 1935. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 498 |
| 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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 498). |
| Other title | American Young man's best companion. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |