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 progressively up 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 even a Child may hereby ascertain the Amount of any Number of Hundreds, Pounds, Ounces, Ells or Yards, &c. at any Price whatever from one Farthing to Twenty Shillings. And to the most ready in Figures, it will be equally useful by saving a great Deal of Time in casting up, what is here correctly done to their Hand. To which is added, a Double table of Portugal money from 1 to 1000. Also a Table of Expences or Wages by the Day, Week, Month or Year. With a Table of Annuities and Commission or Brokerage from one to one Eighth per Cent. And several other necessary and instructive things. / By Daniel Fenning (Author of a New Treatise of Arthimetic, Use of the Globes and the Universal Spelling-Book) and Others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenning, Daniel.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ready-reckoners.

Penn Provenance:

Ward, Matthew (autograph) (Culture Class Collection)

Physical Description:

xii, 263 pages, 1 unnumbered page ;12mo

Other Title:

Ready reckoner

Trader's most useful assistant

Fingerprint:

nged 3635 .*d. 3627 (3) 1757 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for J. Hodges on London Bridge; S. Crowder and H. Woodgate at the Golden Ball in Pater-Noster Row, and B. Collins in Sarum, MDCCLVII [1757]

Notes:

Includes index.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. xii and final page.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Mathew Ward, 1764.

Cited in:

ESTC, T146016

OCLC:

316760354