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Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity For the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art as it is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country
1712ref. 848P43London: Eben. Tracy 1712. Cloth. Good. 6" by 4". Not Stated. A scarce early edition of the monumentally popular mathematics textbook by Edward Cocker illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A scarce work the fourteenth edition of this oft-reprinted work.ESTC citation number T30868.Illustrated with a frontispiece.One leaf of adverts to the rear.Collated complete.Edward Cocker's popular educational volume on mathematics an important work which was used to teach maths in British schools for more than 150 years.Published posthumously there has been arguments that Cocker was not the author and that the work was by the editor John Hawkins using Cocker's name to gain more respect for the work. Rebound in a modern cloth binding with new endpapers. Externally smart. Only a few very light marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and generally clean with some light spots. Frontispiece is reinforced to the reverse. Small chip to page 85/86. A few leaves are a little closely trimmed to the bottom edge no loss of text. Worming to the head of pages 59 to 202 worm hole a little heavier to pages 101 to 192 affecting only a very marginal amount of text. Prior owner's ink inscription to page 215. Repair to the advert to the rear with loss of text. Small tide mark to the margin of the last few pages. Good Eben. Tracy hardcover
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