PROGRESSIVE MATHEMATICAL EXERCISES FOR HOME WORK

Macmillan, London, 1892, reprint.  Hard cover, 232 pages including Answers.  Red boards show cover, edge, corner and spine end wear, some marks and stains.  Binding sound.  Prior owner’s name inked on front paste down with date in pencil beneath, some ink transfer onto FEP.  Binding cracked at FEP with all pages secure; off-setting at front and rear; occasional pencil marks and age spots/smudges; a few short edge tears, ding at upper corner of page block resulted in creases and short edge tears to a few pages.  ‘… commences with exercises in Arithmetic suitable to boys who have gone through the First Four Rules, Simple and Compound, and are beginning Fractions; and Algebraical Exercises consisting chiefly of Numerical Values, Addition, and Subtraction.  From these onward, the exercises rise in difficulty by careful gradations, reaching Cube Root and Compound Interest in Arithmetic, and Quadratic Equations in Algebra, at the end of the First Series.’ (from Preface)