The universal library of trade and commerce;. or, a general magazine for gentlemen, ladies, Merchants, Tradesmen, School-Masters, and all who are any Ways concerned in Business, or the Education of Youth of either Sex, as well as for young Clerks, Apprentices, &c. &c. Containing I. The art of penmanship exemplified in all the various Hands of Great-Britain; with an easy Introduction for the Use of the Unlearned. II. A compleat System of Arithmetic, adapted more particularly to Trade and Business. III. Directions for Mercantile Business in every Branch, as well in the Counting-House and Ware-House, as by the Water-Side; with proper Instructions for the Management of Foreign and Inland Bills of Exchange. IV. An easy System of Accounts on a new Plan, contriv'd for the Use of those whose Business will not admit of the Italian Method. V. A Series of Merchants Accounts; or, the Itatian Method of Book-Keeping made plain and easy. VI. Tables of Foreign Coins, Weights and Measures, reduced to those of England. Vii. A vocabulary or Explanation of terms used by merchants, Tradesmen, &c. By the most celebrated masters. The plates engraved by Mr. George Bickham, and the best Hands. The Whole examin'd and approv'd of by several eminent Merchants.
Category
Books
Date
1747
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3259528.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
pt.5 ;. 4to. (28 cm.). Binding: eighteenth-century, blue paper cover stab stitched through two or three holes.