A Most Excellent Instruction For Keeping Merchants Bookes Of Accounts : London 1632
Amsterdam: Walter J Johnson / Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1975.
Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #14717
ISBN: 9022107868
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, sunned, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; Photoreprint of 1632 edition, printed by I.B. for James Boler, London. Dedicatory epistle signed: I. Carpenter. S.T.C. no. 4661. "Evidence that the [East India] Company was showing a keen interest in DEB [Double-Entry Bookkeeping] in the early 1630s is that in 1632 John Carpenter, a clerk in its employ (Yamey, 1957, p. 300) happens to publish a work on the subject. Carpenter hurriedly and mercilessly plagiarised his book from contemporary leading authorities; he dedicated it to the Company; and he designed it for training its accountants." - R.A. Bryer; "The history of accounting and the transition to capitalism in England. Part two: evidence", Accounting, Organizations and Society 25 (2000), page 358. Influential early 17th-century instruction book on Double-Entry Bookkeeping. ; The English Experience : Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 786; 141 [xi] pages.
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