The young man's best companion

Or, Self instructor. Containing reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published; with instructions to qualify any person for business without the help of a master, merchants' accompts, book-keeping, method of measuring carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, masons, glaziers, painters' work, &c. and the mode of undertaking each work, and at what price; also gauging, dialling, dying, colouring, and making colours, likewise a description of England and Wales, and general observations on gardening for each month in the year. To which is added, a treatise on short-hand, a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy, containing a brief description of the different parts of the earth, a survey of the celestial bodies, &c. and an introductory essay on the importance of knowledge

By Dr. Parkins, of Little Grimby, Lincolnshire, author of the Cabinet of knowledge. &c.