MOON’S ALMANACK
FENNING, Daniel.
The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most useful Assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of Commodities either wholesale or Retail … The eighth Edition. With Additions on Board and Timber Measure, Brick-work, and gauging by the Pen and Slip-rule. Carefully revised and corrected by Joseph Moon, Mathematician, Salisbury.
London, printed for S. Crowder … and B.C. Collins … in Salisbury, 1785.
8vo, pp. [2], xii, [264], with an initial advertisement and ‘certificate’ leaf with a woodcut facsimile signature of the editor; a good copy in contemporary buckram, somewhat rubbed and soiled.
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The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most useful Assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of Commodities either wholesale or Retail … The eighth Edition. With Additions on Board and Timber Measure, Brick-work, and gauging by the Pen and Slip-rule. Carefully revised and corrected by Joseph Moon, Mathematician, Salisbury.
First edition thus, edited by the mathematician and almanack-maker Joseph Moon of Salisbury.
Daniel Fenning (1714/15–1767) was the author of many textbooks covering spelling, grammar, geography, and practical mathematics. His Ready Reckoner was first published in 1757 and much reprinted – like many of his books, it had wide currency in America, where it also had several printings in German. Joseph Moon (d. 1817) published a Salisbury-printed almanack from the late 1770s. Here he claims to have ‘bestowed extraordinary labour on correcting this useful book’, recalculating every sum.
ESTC records five copies only, two of which in the UK (BL and Leeds, the former wanting the first leaf) and three in the US (American Antiquarian Society, Wesleyan, and Yale).
ESTC T133351.
