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 parcels, 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 Abreviations 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 Improvement. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. The sixth edition, corrected and improved, with copper plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other Schoolmasters. Designed for the use of schools, and youth in general.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business education--Early works to 1800.

Business education.

Negotiable instruments--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Negotiable instruments.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

New introduction to trade and business,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1786.

Notes:

Turned chain lines.

Price from imprint: Price One Shilling and Sixpence.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T222834.

OCLC:

642541500