The young man's companion: or, Arithmetick made easy Containing, plain directions for a young man to attain to read and write true English; the best and easiest instructions for writing variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse, digested in an alphabetical order. How to write letters of compliment, friendship, or business. Forms of notes, receipts, bills, bonds, indentures, leases and releases, letters of attorney, wills, &c. A short and easy method of shop and book-keeping, merchants-accompts, &c. Direction how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, plummers, masons, glaziers, and painters work. With tables for such as have not learn'd arithmetick. How to compute the charge of building an house, or any part thereof. The rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen[,] measuring, gauging, plotting of land by Gunter's chain, and taking heights and distances by the quadrant, &c. of Gunter's line in measuring globes, bullets, walls, &c.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Mather, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Printed for R. Ware, in Amen-Corner; T. Longman and T. Shewell, in Pater-Noster-Row; and A. Clarke, in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1747, 1747
Edition:	The seventeenth edition, with large additions and improvements
Subjects:	Handbooks, Vade-mecums, Etc
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1437900700?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa