An exact guide to book-keeping by way of debtor and creditor: done after the Italian method : Containing I. Decimal arithmetick, in all its parts, made plain and easy: teaching how to apply decimals, in casting up merchants accompts, by a readier method than the common rules now in use. II. Thirty seven cases in domestick trade, and twenty cases in foreign trades, fully explain'd and put in practice. III. Book-keeping, in a very easy and familiar method, whereby any one may make himself capable of keeping accompts, without the instruction of a master. IV. By the help of a computation-book, shewing the true and exact method of entring, posting and closing accompts; never before made publick. V. The whole leidger ballanc'd by art, with a brief rule to apply this general ballance to a new inventory. By Thomas King, accomptant. Examin'd and approv'd by several eminent merchants and tradesmen, both in city and country.

Author/creator King, Thomas
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for S. Cruttenden and T. Cox, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside, and W. Wyatt at the Corner of Kingsgate-street in Holbourn, 1717.
Description8 unnumbered pages, 39, 1 unnumbered page;29, 1 unnumbered page, 13, 1 unnumbered page, 15, 45 unnumbered pages, 8, 8, 9-14, 1 unnumbered page ; 4⁰.
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General note'An exact guide to book-keeping: .. By way of waste-book, journal, and leidger: wherein examples .. are concisely enter'd' has a separate titlepage, bearing the imprint: 'London, printed for W. Wyatt. 1716', and separate pagination, partly duplicated; the register is continuous.
General noteReproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.
References Hanson, 2327
References English Short Title Catalog, T189747.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.