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A new introduction to trade and business, very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great Variety of receipts for money, goods, &c. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of parcels, and bills on book debts. With ample Instructions how to Form them. Also Several Instructive exercises, disbursements, week's expences, goods bought at sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvement. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. The sixth edition, corrected and improved, with copper plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other Schoolmasters. Designed for the use of schools, and youth in general.

Title
A new introduction to trade and business, [electronic resource] : very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great Variety of receipts for money, goods, &c. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of parcels, and bills on book debts. With ample Instructions how to Form them. Also Several Instructive exercises, disbursements, week's expences, goods bought at sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvement. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. The sixth edition, corrected and improved, with copper plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other Schoolmasters. Designed for the use of schools, and youth in general.
Author
Hudson, Peter.
Publication
London : printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1786.

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Gale (Firm)
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viii,95,[1]p.,plates; 12⁰.
Uniform Title
Eighteenth century collections online.
Subject
  • Business education > Early works to 1800
  • Negotiable instruments > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Note
  • Turned chain lines.
  • Price from imprint: Price One Shilling and Sixpence.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642541500
  • T222834
Author
Hudson, Peter.
Title
A new introduction to trade and business, [electronic resource] : very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great Variety of receipts for money, goods, &c. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of parcels, and bills on book debts. With ample Instructions how to Form them. Also Several Instructive exercises, disbursements, week's expences, goods bought at sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvement. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. The sixth edition, corrected and improved, with copper plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other Schoolmasters. Designed for the use of schools, and youth in general.
Imprint
London : printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1786.
Series
Eighteenth century collections online.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T222834.
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Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
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Gale (Firm)
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