A briefe instruction and maner hovv to keepe bookes of accompts after the order of debitor and creditor & as well for proper accompts partible, &c. By the three bookes named the memoriall iournall & leager, and of other necessaries appertaining to a good and diligent marchant. The which of all other reckoninges is most lawdable: for this treatise well and sufficiently knowen, all other wayes and maners may be the easier & sooner discerned, learned and knowen. Newely augmented and set forth by Iohn Mellis scholemaister. 1588 - Oldcastle, Hugh ([By Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe of the white Beare, nigh Baynards Castle [for Hugh Singleton, and are to be solde at his shoppe at the north dore in Christes Hospital, next vnto the cloyster, going into Smithfield], 1588)
"A short and plaine treatise of arithmeticke in whole numbers" by John Mellis has separate dated title page and foliation; register is continuous. - Based on: Pacioli, Luca. Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalita. - Bookseller's name and address from colophon. - Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. - Revised by Mellis from an original work by Hugh Oldcastle, whose name appears on A3r. - STC (2nd ed.), 18794. - Signatures: A-R S4. - The "i" and "t" in "creditor" on the title page are turned. - With a slip-cancel on G2r referring to the subsequent sections