The instructor: or, Young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. Instructions to write variety of hands ... How to write letters ... Forms of indentures ... releases, &c. Also merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping ... Together with the method of measuring carpenters ... and painters work ... Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which is added, the family's best companion ... and a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy ... also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, accountant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, George, accomptant 20384

Contributor:

Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778

Standardized Title:

Instructor

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xii,372p., [7]leaves of plates : ill. ; 12°.

Edition:

The twenty-first edition corrected and improved.

Place of Publication:

Burlington [N.J.] : Printed and sold by Isaac Collins, M,DCC.LXXV [i.e., 1787]

Notes:

Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing.

Typographically identical, except for the title page, with the issue with title: The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion .. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank .. MDCCLXXXVII. The frequent use of the date 1787 in examples (e.g., p. 166) confirms that year as date of publication.

Error in paging: p. 353-354 misnumbered 253-254.

Frontispiece engraved by James Thackera.

"A bibliographically confusing book that can only be partially explained" (Felcone)

Local Notes:

Library copy: ?imp.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans, 14458

Humphrey, C.H. New Jersey, 143

Alston, IV.395

Felcone, J. New Jersey Books, 1992, 89