Youth's introduction to trade and business. : Containing I. Tables of the most usual clerk-like contractions of words; with proper Directions how to address Persons of Elevated Rank, and those in Office. II. Acquittances and Promissory Notes diversified, and adapted to such Circumstances as occur in real Business. III. Variety of Bills of Parcels, and Bills on Book-Debts, to enter the Learner in the Manner and Methods of Commerce, and to make him ready at Computation. IV. Bills of Exchange, with necessary Directions for the right Understanding and Management of Remittances, with various Orders for Goods, Letters of Credit, Invoices, and other Merchant-Like Examples. V. Authentic Forms of such Law-Precedents, as are most frequently met with in the Course of Traffick. VI. Great variety of questions interspersed, to exercise the Learner in the Common Rules of Arithmetic, to use him to Calculation, and to bring him acquainted with the Use, the Properties and Excellency of Numbers, by Way of Recreation. By M. Clare, late Master of the Academy in Soho-Square, London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clare, M. (Martin), -1751.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business mathematics.

Business--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Business.

Business education.

Great Britain.

Business education--Early works to 1800.

Business education--Great Britain--Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

viii,192 pages ; 8⁰

Edition:

The eleventh edition, corrected by J. Good, ..

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Rivington and Sons, G. Keith, S. Crowder, R. Baldwin G. Robinson, F. Blyth, and Scatcherd and Whitaker, M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Pp.[163]-192 contain 'Solutions to the most difficult of the aforegoing questions' by Benjamin Webb.

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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, T121418.

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Restricted for use by site license.