THE READIEST AND MOST CONCISE METHODS EVER PUBLISHED, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF ALL CLASSES. UNDER THE SPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN, AND 12,000 SUBSCRIBERS OF PROFESSORS, MERCHANTS, AND TRADERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. BY DANIEL O'GORMAN, AUTHOR, ALSO, OF A NEW SYSTEM OF SELF-INSTRUCTING BOOK-KEEPING. SEVENTH EDITION-13,000 COPIES, Greatly Enlarged and Improved, with the Ground-work of a Mercantile and BY ALCOCK AND HUMBY, 21, CROSS STREET, MANCHESTER. MDCCCLIII. PRICE THREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE. 181. l. 1. CAUTION. THE AUTHOR, to prevent fraud, offers a reward of One Hundred Pounds to any one who will give information against any person or persons who will attempt to print or publish this work without his approbation, under his hand and seal in writing first obtained, agreeable to the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided. Also, a further reward of Fifty Pounds to any person who has taken out of this work the number of pages specified in the said Act. And a further reward of Thirty Pounds will be given to any person who will give such private information as may lead to the discovery of the offender, and his name shall be kept private. D. O'GORMAN. MANCHESTER, May, 1853. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, THE QUEEN'S APPROBATION AND PATRONAGE OF THE WORK. ON receipt of a copy of the book, Her Majesty was pleased to make the following gracious reply: "Miss Skerritt begs to inform Mr. O'Gorman that Her Majesty received the Arithmetic Book which he sent. H. M. thinks it is a book likely to be of great service in teaching ready calculations. "Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept of the copy. “Mr. D. O'Gorman.” TESTIMONIALS OF THE PRESS. AMIABLE CONDUCT OF HER MAJESTY TO A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY."Her Majesty has been pleased to receive the book, and has in the most handsome manner expressed her high opinion of the merits of the work: such a criticism from the most illustrious personage in the realm must go far to render the book universally sought after, and a seventh edition is already, we understand, in the press."-Durham Chronicle. |