The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion. Containing spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, 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 on business or friendship. Forms of indenture ... releases, &c. Also merchants accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the several American colonies. Together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule ... Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... To which is added, the poor planter's physician ... and also, prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers. The whole better adapted to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind. By George Fisher, accomptant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, George, accomptant 20384

Contributor:

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

Standardized Title:

Instructor

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[2],v,[1],390p., [1]leaf of plates : ill. ; 12°.

Edition:

The fifteenth edition, revised and corrected.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by John Dunlap, at the newest printing-office, in Market-Street, M,DCC,LXX. [1770]

Notes:

Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing.

American editors' preface signed: Vale & Fruere.

A re-issue, with cancelled title page, of the fourteenth edition, "Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, M,DCC,LXX." Gaine's advertisement on p. 390 is retained.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 11859; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2528; Alston IV.379