The man of business, and gentleman's assistant: containing a complete system of practical arithmetic, Including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Interest, Annuities, and Purchasing Freehold Estates; book-keeping by single and double entry; The Former Digested on the Plan of Real Business, Comprising A Modern and approved Method of keeping mall Accompts, Dr. and Cr. in the Waste-Book only, necessary to be known and practised by all Retail Traders. By William Perry; Master of the Academy, Edinburgh; Author of the Royal Standard English Dictionary, the only Sure Guide to the English Tongue, the Orator, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bookkeeping--Early works to 1800.

Bookkeeping.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212,8,12,48,18,[21],344-451,[1]p. )

Edition:

The third edition with improvements.

Other Title:

Man of business,

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : printed for the author; and sold by J. Wilkie, and T. Evans, London; C. Elliot, W. Creech, and R. Jameson, Edinburgh; Charnley, Newcastle; Tesseyman, York; and by the author, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]

Notes:

With a half-title.

The book-keeping examples are separately paginated.

Price from imprint: Price, bound, six Shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T87570.

OCLC:

642720360