Youth's faithful monitor : or, the young man's best companion. Containing a compendious English grammar, proper for all Youth to be acquainted with. Reading and writing made easy, with Copies of the same; Letters on various Subjects, Receipts and promissory Notes, Forms of Bills of Debt, Bills of Sale, Bonds, Indentures, Wills, &c. Also, arithmetic laid down in an easier Manner than any yet extant; whereby a Person of a mean Capacity may attain the same without the Help of a Master. Merchants accompts, or, the best Method of Book-Keeping, after an easy and short Method, the Forms of Bills of Exchange, the Fares of Watermen as set forth by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. Like Wise Mensuration, Gauging, and Surveying made easy; with some very useful Tables of Interest, calculated on a new Plan. Astronomy and Geography; containing a Description of the Use of the Globes celestial and terrestrial; with a Description of the Product, Counties, Market Towns with their Distance of Miles from London, and Market Days in England and Wales, and a correct List of all the Fairs. Likewise the Art of Dialling; how to erect and fix them; with Instructions for making Colours; together with a choice Collection of curious Receipts. To which is added A curious Abstract of the history of England, with all the remarkable Events down to the present Year. With a great variety of copper-plates and cuts. By William Woolgar, Accomptant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolgar, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,372p.,plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

The fifth edition, improved, enlarged and corrected by John Wright, ..

Other Title:

Youth's faithful monitor

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, Robinson and Roberts, and J. Smith, in Paternoster Row; T. Caslon, opposite Stationers-Hall; B. Law, in Ave-Mary-Lane, 1770.

Notes:

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T118252.

OCLC:

642313061