64 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Intricate typesetting, vertically as well as horizontally. Basic mathematical rules: addition, multiplication, division, money, weights and measures - of land, wine, ale, and beer - and time. Seven pages of 1795 'Bills of Sale' at end with invoices to add up - from the Cheesemonger's, Grocer's, Woollen Draper's, Linen Draper's, Milliner's, Mercer's, and Hosier's. Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane. This title was one of nine or ten volumes in a set called 'The Book-case of Knowledge, or Library for Youth' - in a wooden case without a front but covered in marbled paper. Rear inner hinge split but still holding firmly. Original cream endpapers. 62 x 97 mm. Original paper-covered boards with a paper label to the upper panel. Spine with later paper strengthening. OCLC, 0885456. WorldCat locates 5 copies worldwide. Seller Inventory # 5608

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Title: Compendium of Simple Arithmetic; in which ...

Publisher: Wallis, J. 16 Ludgate Street. London.

Publication Date: 1801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Jason Burley, an accredited full member of the ABA and of ILAB, has owned his own bookshop continuously since 1984, been a past Chair of the PBFA (London) for over four years and exhibited at the PBFA monthly Russell Hotel antiquarian bookfairs & other specialist bookfairs for over a decade. At Firsts London 2024, the Rare Book Fair Committee selected Jason of Camden Lock books for the Award of Best Display of the four-day event. Jason is also co-founder and co-owner of Burley and Fisher Books LLP. - located between Haggerston and Dalston Kingsland Stations, the bookshop has an events space with a bar where we hold over 100 literary events each year, a basement of second-hand books, and a Risograph Printing department. Our stock of new books includes independent publishers and local authors, with general, collectable second-hand books, as well. Our older, rare books include collectable miniature books, our specialism.

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