John Bettesworth — The New Universal Ready Reckoner: Or, Every Trader"S Infallible Guide

London, Printed for Alex Hogg, c1780. Cloth. A scarce Georgian trader"s reckoner, packed with practical tables for calculating prices, wages, weights, and measures during a time of rapid economic expansion. In the publisher's buckram cloth binding. Revised, corrected, and improved edition.  Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Collated, complete.  A late 18th century commercial handbook and reckoner, designed to assist merchants, traders, shopkeepers, and labourers in calculating the value of goods, wages, and commodities.  The volume provides extensive tables enabling users to determine prices and quantities "at one Point of View." In the publisher's original buckram cloth binding. Externally, a little worn. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to cloth. Rubbing to boards with the odd handling and ink mark. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges slightly strained, but holding. Small ink annotation to rear free endpaper. Internally, pages bright and clean if typically age toned with the odd light spot. Hinges failing in places, with gatherings pp. 69-76, 81-96, 99-110 detached, but present. Good . Ill.: None. Good .