The Instructor: or, American Young Man's Best Companion. Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick...Instructions to write variety of hands..Also, merchant's accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and bookkeeping... To which is added, The Family's Best Companion: With instructions for marking linen; how to pickle and preserve: to make diverse sorts of wine; and many excellent plaisters, and medicines, necessary in all families.

Book. Walpole, New Hampshire: Printed by Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle, for said Thomas, in Worcester, Massachusetts; said Thomas and Andrews, D. West and E. Larkin, in Boston, 1794. 8vo, early calf. Pp. 384, illus.. Engraved frontis. of classroom, with master and scholars; folding plate. Internal ownership signature "Jonathan Andrew Book, Salem, 1811." Heavily foxed throughout. First printed in England ca. 1735, an encyclopedic compendium of a wide range of practical instruction, including technical work, carpentry and painting, mathematics, sun dials, accounting, legal drafts, medical and culinary receipts, embroidery (with full page diagrams,) etc. Re-printed first by Benjamin Franklin in its American adaptation in 1748, and subsequently throughout the second half of the 18th century. Shipton & Mooney 27706. .