Proposals for publishing, by subscription or order, in one volume, royal octavo, price half a guinea in boards, to be paid on delivery, or on subscription-at pleasure, an original work; never having been before attempted; of the most general use, viz. The estimate-book of rents, interests, and dividends : Of profits, losses, charges, allowances, discounts, duties, drawbacks, and bounties; covering insurance, and average losses; dividends on bankrupt-estates; exchanges, and arbitration of exchanges; differences in weights and measures of all kinds, in all countries, &c. &c. the universal tables, for buying, selling, and speculations, in lands, houses, the public funds, and the stocks of the public companies; and in every article of produce, manufacture, merchandize, &c. the per-cent-book. To which will be added, tables of annuities certain, annuities on lives, and assurances on lives. For the use of every person of property; gentlemen of the law, and every person acting in turst for others; every proprietor in the public funds, or in the stocks of the public companies, and such as may wish to become properitors; every banker; and every agent, and broker: and of every person in trade. viz. merchant, factor, wholesale-dealer, manufacturer, &c. &c. of every denomination. With an introduction, containing familiar examples of the application of the tables, by inspection, to their extensive and various uses; to render the same perfectly easy to any person. By George Black. Among many other respectable gentlemen, and men of business, to whom the manuscript has been shewn, and whose approbation and recommendation the work has received, are the following: the Rev. Richrad Price, D.D.F.R.S. &c. William Morgan, Esq. actuary of the equitable assurance society. Thomas Coutts, Esq. and Co. bankers. Meses. R.H.G. & A.B. Drammond & Co. bankers. Sir Robert Herries and Co. bankers. Charles Herries, and Co. merchants. Messrs. Moffatt, Kensubgtons, and Boler, bankers. Peter Theilisson, Esq. an sons, merchants. Messrs. Thorntons and Smalley, merchants. Alex. Tortter, Esq. pay-master of the navy. The subscriptions have also received the liberal and respectable lead subjoined to these proposals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, George, active 1789-1794.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book proposals--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Book proposals.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Prospectuses.

Physical Description:

15 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1790?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Printed between 1789 and 1794 on internal evidence.

The agents for the author were Thomas Cadell and Messrs. Welles, Grosvenor, and Chater.

The work was apparently not published?.

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, T124813.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.