@article{537833,
      recid = {537833},
      author = {Fenning, Daniel.},
      title = {The youth's familiar guide to trade and commerce, as it is  now actually practised by the most eminent merchants.  Containing Every Thing necessary to be known for carrying  on any Branch of Business with Pleasure and Profit. I. The  five fundamental Rules of Arithmetic, and the Principles on  which they are founded fully explained. II. The Rule of  Three, or Doctrine of Proportion, applied to Trade. III.  The Rule of Practice, or short Methods of finding the Value  of any Quantity of Goods. IV. The Rule of Fellowship,  single and double. V. The Doctrine of Exchange; in which  the real and imaginary Monies of the principal trading  Places in Europe, the Par of Exchange, and the Course or  current Price of Exchange, are considered and explained.  VI. The Art of Book-Keeping, according to the Ital. Method.  Vii. Various Forms of Acquitances and Promissory Notes.  Viii. Bills of Exchange, both inland and foreign, with the  Manner of noting and protesting them, when Acceptance or  Payment is refused. IX. Bills of Parcels, adapted both to  retail and wholesale Dealers. X. Bills on Book-Debts. XI.  Bills of Lading and Invoices, from real Business. XII. The  Business and Duty of a Factor explained. XIII. The Method  of doing Business at the Water-Side, with the Manner of  entering Goods at the Custom-House inwards and outwards.  XIV. The present State of the British Commerce. XV. The  Manner of insuring Ships and Merchandise. XVI. The Nature  of mercantile Writing explained and illustrated. XVII. Law  Precedents useful in Trade and Commerce. XVIII. Foreign  Weights and Measures reduced to English. XIX. Questions,  for exercising the Mind in the most useful Parts of  Arithmetical Computation. The whole laid down in so plain  and familiar a Manner, as to render it easy to be attained  by the meanest Capacity. By D. Fenning, Author of the Royal  English Dictionary, &c. &c. (published by the  King's Authority.). [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for S. Crowder, at No. 12, Pater-Noster-Row,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[12],228p. ;},
      year = {1772},
      note = {Braces in imprint.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/537833},
}