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This early American textbook has a quarter leather binding, with the spine in leather and heavy paper boards. The boards show considerable wear, with the marbled paper cover stripped away in places and heavily worn in others. However, both boards are firmly attached to the spine and the binding is still tight with all pages intact. The pages are heavy textured paper, some staining, but in amazingly good condition, considering the age of this obviously much-used volume. Except for some long-hand division on the inside of the back board, the book is unmarked. The best feature of the text is its content--besides all sorts of mathematic information, problems and measurements, it also has instructions/examples of all sorts of things mathematical--eg. the correct way to design a graph, calculations for different forms of weight, motion. measures of all kinds and an entire section of the appropriate forms of notes, deeds, bonds, receipts and wills--all in the erudite, charming language of the age. This is a… Read More

This volume--called a jest book--was dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, founder of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, and has a pencilled 3-name signature on the dedication page that clearly reads Richard, with the other two names too faded to decipher. Who knows? There are no other markings or labels. Good condition overall with rubbing on the embossed spine, edges and corners. Binding sound and pages firmly attached. At least one in-text graphic, plus a stylized rendering of Democritus on the title page, along with a notation that boarding schools and parents may safely give this jest book to amuse children "without danger of corrupting their morals , or contaminating the purity of their tender minds." Delightful copy!