A new introduction to trade and business : very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbrevations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvdment. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. A new edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Four Copper Plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business education.

Bookkeeping--Early works to 1800.

Bookkeeping.

Negotiable instruments--Great Britain.

Negotiable instruments.

Young women--Employment--Great Britain.

Young women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,95,[5]p.,plates )

Other Title:

New introduction to trade and business

Place of Publication:

London : printed for George Keith, at the Bible and Crown, in Gracechurch-Street, MDCCLXI. [1761]

Notes:

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Cited in:

Higgs, 2463

Goldsmiths', 9687

English Short Title Catalog, T127968.

OCLC:

642354794