This article is the teachers’ and students’ guide to arithmetic, providing help for professions such as carpenters, brick layers and thatchers.
“This Day is published, price 2s, neatly bound,
THE
SCHOOLMASTER’S
MOST USEFUL
COMPANION,
AND
SCHOLAR’S BEST INSTRUCTOR,
IN THE
KNOWLEDGE of ARITHMETIC.
IN TWO PARTS.
PART 1.
Containing the first Principles of ARITHMETIC, with plain and concise Directions to work the Rules of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Reduction, The Rule of Three, Practice, Interest, Rebate or Discount, Fellowship or Partnership, Alligation, Progression, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Extraction and Use of the Square and Cube Roots.
WITH A VARIETY OF
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS, to exercise the Scholar in all the foregoing Rules, each Question having the Answer inserted, in order to save the Master or Tutor a great Deal of Time and Labour, and help the Scholar forward in his Progress in the practical Part of ARITHMETIC.
Also RULES for performing CROSS MULTIPLICATION, with the Application to actual Practice in measuring CARPENTERS, JOINERS, PAVIERS, THATCHERS, and BRICKLAYERS Work, and the Manner of gauging Coolers, Cisterns, and Casks in Wine Gallons, Ale Gallons, and Malt Bushels, both by the Pen and Sliding Rule.
Part II
Comprehending a short and simple SKETCH of BOOK-KEEPING, by way of COMMON DEBTOR and CREDITOR, by which ACCOMPTS may be kept with great Ease and Exactness. The Whole digested in such a Manner as to render it not only useful in almost every Branch of Life and Business, but very entertaining.
By D. FENNING,
Author of the ROYAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Young Man’s BOOK of KNOWLEDGE, Young MEASURER’s Complete GUIDE, Young ALGEBRAIST’S COMPANION, New ENGLISH GRAMMAR, &c,
THE FOURTH EDITION;
Corrected, improved, and greatly enlarged, by H. MARSHALL, Writing Master and Accomptant. Recommended by several of the most eminent Schoolmasters and expert Arithmeticians in the Kingdom.
London: Printed for S. CROWDER, in Pater-noster-Row; And fold by R. Newcomb, Stamford; W. Brooke, John Drury, and Joshua Drewry, Lincoln; Preston, Boston; Allen, Grantham; Albin, and Jennings, Spalding; Marsh, and Sheardown, Louth; Ellis, Horncastle; Taylor, Retford; Horden, and Jacob, Peterborough; Booth, Caistor; Allin and Ridge, and Tomlinson, Newark; Marshall, Lynn; Brown, Hull; Brown, Alford; Plummer, and Sanderson, Doncaster; Scott, Brigg; Harrod, Harborough; Jenkinson, Huntingdon; and by all Booksellers in Town and Country, with good Allowances to Schools.
To the PUBLIC.
This Companion having received the Approbation of many of the most eminent Teachers in the Kingdom, through Three very large Impressions, the proprietors presume to hope, that this, the Fourth Edition of it, will be found still more deserving their Encouragement than any of the preceding Ones, and consequently that it will be preferred to every Work of the Kind by all Masters of Academics and Schools, and likewise by private Students. The utmost Care has been taken in the Correction of every Part of it; and with regard to Typographical Execution, it is pronounced, by good judges, to be inferior to no modern School-Book, and indeed to be superior to most.”
Stamford Mercury, 2nd May 1788.