TY - GEN AU - Fisher, George, CY - Edinburgh : DA - 1786. ET - A new edition. ID - 661986 KW - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1303300100&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=usi N1 - Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland. PB - Printed for W. Coke bookseller, Leith, PP - Edinburgh : PY - 1786. T1 - The instructor; or, Young man's best companion.Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies. How to write letters on business of friendship; forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties, and market-towns in England and Wales; and a list of English and Scots fairs according to the new style. The method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, plumbers, malons, glasiers, and painters work how to undertake each work, and at what price: the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journey-men, with the description of gunter's line, and coggeshall's sliding rule. The practical gauger made easy; the art of dialing, and how to erect and six dials, with instructions for dyeing, colouring, and making colours; some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which are added, the family's best companion; and a compendium of geography and astronomy. Also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, accountant. TI - The instructor; or, Young man's best companion.Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies. How to write letters on business of friendship; forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties, and market-towns in England and Wales; and a list of English and Scots fairs according to the new style. The method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, plumbers, malons, glasiers, and painters work how to undertake each work, and at what price: the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journey-men, with the description of gunter's line, and coggeshall's sliding rule. The practical gauger made easy; the art of dialing, and how to erect and six dials, with instructions for dyeing, colouring, and making colours; some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which are added, the family's best companion; and a compendium of geography and astronomy. Also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, accountant. UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1303300100&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=usi ER -