@article{667379,
      recid = {667379},
      author = {Fisher, George,},
      title = {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 or  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, masons, 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 dying, colouring, and making colours; and  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. [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed by David Paterson, for J. Spottiswood bookseller  there,},
      address = {Edinburgh :},
      pages = {xii,383,[1]p.,plates :},
      year = {1784},
      note = {Reproduction of original from National Library of  Scotland.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/667379},
}