The Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion. Containing,Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic etc.,Instructions to write Variety of Hands etc.,Also Merchants Accounts etc.,Together with Methods of measuring Carpenters, Joiners, Sawyers etc.,Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy etc.,To which is added, The Family's Best Companion: andA Compendium of the Sciences of Geography and Astronomy etc.,Also some useful Interest Tables.Twenty-second Edition, Corrected and Improved. by Fisher, George - 1775

London: Printed for J. Fuller, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, R Baldwin, E. Johnston, L. Hawes and Co. T. Caslon, S. Crowden, B. Law, G. Robinson, W. Woodfall, W. Domville, and B. Collins., 1775. Hardback. 8vo. xii, 384pp. Engraved frontispiece of a master and his pupils; and one fold-out plate of geometric figures (facing p184), various diagrams in the text. Contemporary full calf. Sympathetic modern rebacking in calf, preserving original spine label. A fascinating compendium of 'essential' knowledge. A fascinating guide to the knowldege considered essential to a young man in the late eighteenth century. Good condition. Rebacked in calf leather, original spine label preserved. Boards a little rubbed and worn but still very serviceable. Text block firmly bound. Small amount of worm damage to marginal areas of a few pages but not affecting text. R1 has a small tear to leading edge and also at gutter, R2 similar tear to gutter. Owner's name to ffep neatly done in ink along with date of 1779.