Arithmetic.- [Recorde (Robert)] [The Grounde of Artes: teaching the perfecte worke and practise of Arithmetike, bothe in whole numbers and fractions ...], black letter, lacking endpapers, A1 (title) & 8, P1 & 8, Y1 & 8, and anything after a3, with woodcut initialis, with 17th and 18th century manuscript names and notes, rather soiled and stained, A2 strengthened at hinge, leaves at beginning and end a little frayed at edges, occasional marginal tears and some loss to corners (occasionally affecting text), contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, [STC 20799.3], 8vo, Reynolde Wolfe, 1552; sold not subject to return ⁂ Very rare, with only one copy on ESTC (BL), also incomplete. One of the first English textbooks on arithmetic, first published in 1543, and running to many editions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This edition is probably the last to be edited by Recorde, before his death in 1558.
Arithmetic.- [Recorde (Robert)] [The Grounde of Artes: teaching the perfecte worke and practise of Arithmetike, bothe in whole numbers and fractions ...], black letter, lacking endpapers, A1 (title) & 8, P1 & 8, Y1 & 8, and anything after a3, with woodcut initialis, with 17th and 18th century manuscript names and notes, rather soiled and stained, A2 strengthened at hinge, leaves at beginning and end a little frayed at edges, occasional marginal tears and some loss to corners (occasionally affecting text), contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, [STC 20799.3], 8vo, Reynolde Wolfe, 1552; sold not subject to return ⁂ Very rare, with only one copy on ESTC (BL), also incomplete. One of the first English textbooks on arithmetic, first published in 1543, and running to many editions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This edition is probably the last to be edited by Recorde, before his death in 1558.
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