The ready reckoner : or, trader's most 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 one Farthing to Twenty Shillings, 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 of 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, 1. A double table of Portugal money from 1 to 1000. 2. A Table of Expences or Wages by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. 3. A table of annuities, and Commission or Brokerage, from One to One Eighth per Cent. The seventh edition, with additions On Board and Timber Measure, Brick-Work, and Gauging by the Pen and Slip-Rule. By Daniel Fenning, Author of The Royal English Dictionary; Young Man's Book of Knowledge; Use of the Glores; The Universal Spelling Book, And, A new Grammar of the English Tongue, And others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenning, Daniel.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ready-reckoners.

Physical Description:

xii pages, 264 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for S. Crowder, at No. 12, in Paternoster Row; and B. C. Collins, on the New Canal, in Salisbury, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price 1s. 6d.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N13569.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.