The instructor, or, young man's best companion

Also merchants accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with an accurate description of the counties and market-towns in England and Wales, and their products. Together with the method of measuring plumbers, joiners, carpenters, sawyers, bricklayers, plasterers, masons, glaziers and painters' work. The mode of unertaking each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity,and wages men; a description of Gunter's line, and Coggeshall's sliding rule. Likewise receipts for dying, colouring, and making of colours; the practical gauger made easy; the art of dialling, and fixing dials; and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. In this work is also given a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy, containing a brief description of the different parts of the earth, and survey of the celestial bodies. And some useful interest-tables

By George Fisher, accomptant