Excerpt from A Practical System of Book-Keeping, by Double and Single Entry, Both in Single and Copartnership Business: Including the Forms of Doing Business at the Custom Houses, Exemplified in Five Sets of Books, With the Most Approved Form of Exchanges, Calculations, &C., , Now in UseTan liberal encouragement which the former editions of this work have met with, has encouraged the author and publishers to spare no pains in ren dering it a. Complete text-book for schools and the counting-room. In its general appearance, it is the same as the last edition, and it has been care fully revised, with additional explanations for the use of merchants and teachers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.