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}}John Rowlett’s ''Tables of Discount…'' allows individuals to determine the amount of interest expense they will pay on a particular amount of money or, likewise, the amount of interest income they will earn on a particular amount of money. These tables provide the means for people who may lack formal training in finance to quickly and easily calculate the amount of interest that will accumulate on a particular amount of money.   
  
 
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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
 
Rebacked with original boards and leather label with gilt lettering on spine. Purchased from Eveleigh Books.<br />
 
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View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/334068 William & Mary's online catalog.]
 
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Revision as of 10:38, 27 January 2014

by John Rowlett

Tables of Discount
RowlettTablesOfDiscount1802.jpg

Title page from Tables of Discount, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author John Rowlett
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Published Philadelphia: Printed for the proprietor, by Hugh Maxwell
Date 1802
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Language English
Volumes 1 volume set
Pages 200
Desc. 27 cm.
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John Rowlett’s Tables of Discount… allows individuals to determine the amount of interest expense they will pay on a particular amount of money or, likewise, the amount of interest income they will earn on a particular amount of money. These tables provide the means for people who may lack formal training in finance to quickly and easily calculate the amount of interest that will accumulate on a particular amount of money.

Bibliographic Information

Author: John Rowlett.

Title: Rowlett's Tables of Discount, or Interest, on Every Dollar, From Unit, or One, to Two Thousand; on Every Ten Dollars, From Two Thousand to Two Thousand Five Hundred; on Every Fifty, From Two Thousand Five Hundred to Three Thousand; And on Every Five Hundred, From Three Thousand to Five Thousand; From One, to Sixty-Four Days, Inclusive, Also for Every Month, From One to Twelve, and for Eighteen Months, and Two Years; Besides a Complete Cent Table: the Whole Computed at Six Per Cent Together With Examples ... Shewing In What Manner (By Means of the Tables) to Ascertain the Interest, at Five, Seven, and at Eight Per Cent.

Publication Info: Philadelphia: Printed for the proprietor, by Hugh Maxwell , 1802.

Edition: 200 pages.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

References