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Full title - BOOK-KEEPING IN THE TRUE ITALIAN FORM OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR, BY WAY OF DOUBLE ENTRY: OR, PRACTICAL BOOK-KEEPING, EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE PRECEPTS OF THE LATE INGENIOUS D DOWLING, AUTHOR OF MERCANTILE ARITHMETIC. WITH THE ADDITION OF COMPUTATIONS IN EXCHANGE, AND TABLES, SHEWING THE PROPORTION THAT THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES IN EUROPE BEAR TO EACH OTHER. BY WILLIAM JACKSON, ACCOUNTANT. i-viii, 1-288 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 13.75cm. Contemporary dark leather stained and rubbed; board corners worn with section of surface leather missing at rear board's top left; top 2cm of spine leather chipped; small losses to spine's gilt lettered red title label; slender splitting to joints but hinges remain firm. Front free endpaper mostly missing; toning throughout; moisture stains and soiling; some margin chips to several initial and rear leaves. Binding remains firm. Large double-sided foldout leaf "Table I" (recto) and "Table II" (verso) on unpaged leaf between pages 282-283. Book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which aids the binding and modestly enhances the book's shelf appearance. OCLC cites the earliest institutional holding as an Dublin, Ireland 1771 "revised, corrected and improved" edition (indicative of there being an even earlier version) with the initial American editions being Philadelphia circa 1795 and New York, 1804.…