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The Instructor: Or, American Young Man's Best Companion...Bound with The Family's Best Companion.
Worcester, MA: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1786. Second Worcester Edition, Enlarged, and Improved. Continuation of title: "Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an earlier way than any yet published. Instructions to write a 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.." Contains many illustrations including frontispiece engraving of teacher, 5 fullpage illustrations of alphabets; one foldout plate of geometric shapes, one text illustration of mariner's compass; one text illustration of quadrant, two full page illustrations of needlepoint alphabet. Many ownership names including Henry Warrington {1789] and Esther Warrington. With some laid in ephemera. Inner hinges cracking, general shelfwear and rubbing/dampstaining/spotting, bumped corners, pp toned throughout, moderate foxing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. xii, 366pp, with illus (2 plates of calligraphy and a few text woodcuts). Bound in full calf, with four raised bands. Item #6681
Price: $350.00