The British youth's instructor : or, a new and easy guide to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, the Extraction and Use of the Square and Cube Roots, &c. Are so easily Treated of, and so plainly Demonstrated, That any Person may, of himself, (in a short Time) become acquainted with every Thing necessary to the Knowledge of Business. With a Postscript, For the Use of Country Youths in particular: Shewing how to measure any regular Piece of Timber, Tiling, Thatching, Brick-Work, or Piece of Land; as also how to guage any Cistern, Piece of Malt, or common Coller, Tub, &c. And to this edition is now first added, a compendious method of book-keeping, Whereby any one capable of subtracting one Sum of Money from another, may state and balance their own Accounts correctly, and have a clear View of all their Transactions. The Whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected, or have not had an Opportunity of becoming acquainted with Figures; and attempted in natural and familiar Dialogues, in order to render the Work more easy and diverting, as well as useful to Learners. Recommended BY Several Eminent Writing-Masters and Accomptants. By Daniel Fenning, Author of the Young Algebraist's Companion; Description and Use of the Globes (both in Dialogues); the Universal Spelling-Book; Royal English Dictionary; Young Man's Book of Knowledge; a new English Grammar; and a new Treatise on Mensuration. The tenth edition, revised, corrected, and improved, by W. Burbidge, Schoolmaster, in Salisbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenning, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

Arithmetic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi,[1],302,[2],2,3,[2],6,5,[2]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

British youth's instructor

Place of Publication:

London : printed for S. Crowder, No. 12, Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]

Notes:

The 'Appendix: containing a concise method of book-keeping' has separate, varied pagination, but continuous register.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Price from imprint: price bound Three Shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T133354.

OCLC:

642374743