THE INSTRUCTOR:

OR,

YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION

 Containing,

 spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way th[an] any yet published; and how to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master.

 Instructions to write Variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse. How to write Letters on Business or Friendship. Forms of Indentures, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Receipts, Wills, Leases, Releases, &c.

 Also Merchants Accompts, 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.

Together with the Carpenter’s Plain and Exact Rule: Shewing how to measure Carpenters, Joiners, Sawyers, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Masons, Glasiers and Painters Work. How to under-take each Work, and at what Price; the Rates of each Commodity, and the common Wages of Journeymen; with Gunter’s Line, and Coggeshall’s Description of the Sliding-Rule.

Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy; the Art of Dialling, and how to erect and fix any Dial; with Instructions Dying, Colouring, and making Colours; and some General Observations for Gardening every Month in the Year.

To which is added,

THE FAMILY'S BEST COMPANION:

With Instructions for Marking on Linnen; how to Pickle and Preserve; to make divers sorts of Wine; and many excellent plaisters, and Medicines, necessary in all Families:

 A Compleat Treatise of Farriery;

Or, Good Advice to Gentlemen and Farmers; with a choice Collection of Remedies, very fit for all Farriers and Grooms.

Also some useful Interest-Tables.

By GEORGE FISHER,, Accomptant.

The Tenth Edition Revised and Corrected

LONDON:  PRINTED FOR S. BIRT.  MDCCL.

Selling here is George Fisher's 'The Instructor:  or, Young Man's Best Companion,' printed in London for S. Birt, 1750, this the tenth edition.  The contents are complete, meeting collation:  xii,384p with frontispiece and 7 plates (1 folding).  Small 8vo, bound in the worn remains of its original binding of full sheep.  

Condition: The book measures 10cm by 17.1cm. The binding is worn and rubbed, upper board detached and lower board held by its cords, corners bumped and calf chipped with loss around the extremities. 

The contents are holding firmly, pages generally in good condition though with some occasional dust soiling and scattered minor spots and marks. Brownish staining affecting pp37-46, though without loss of legibility. A few light pencil marks. Original plain end papers, with some early ink inscriptions at front and a 20th century owners bookplate.      

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