The ready reckoner, or, the trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities

Fenning, Daniel

Published by Edmund M. Blunt, Newburyport, 1794

About this Item

Eleventh edition, tall 16mo, pp. 158; original full calf; boards rubbed and bumped, bottom of spine chipped; contemporary owners' signatures and notations on endpapers and flyleaves, including a list of bank accounts. One of the many "pocket calculators" published throughout the US in the 19th century. Little is known of Fenning. He was a compiler of several school texts, including an arithmetic, a geography, and a speller, the last of which had notable popularity in America before Webster.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The ready reckoner, or, the trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities
• Publisher: Edmund M. Blunt, Newburyport
• Publication Date: 1794
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • Mathematics