Mathematical, Geometrical, and Philosophical Delights: containing Essays, Problems, Solutions, Theorems, &c. selected from an extensive correspondence.

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This volume is a bit of a puzzle. ESTC T110407 records Mathematical, Geometrical, and Philosophical Delights, puiblished in 11 parts 1792-98, with 13 plates preceded by a separate title-page dated 1797. Bound with the volume as described above (sans 1797 title-page) we have the parts issue, each numbered and consisting of 4 pp. - except part 11, where we have the title-page only, and a page of advertisement referring to No. 16 of the Scientific Receptacle (a stable-mate). These parts, a little soiled, and cut close, are evidently disbound from a calf-bound volume, and are in fact almost detached (as a body) from the main text block. Thus we seem to have an unrecorded collected edition. However the 225 pages contain much more than the 'Delights'', with correspondence, and Essays. Thomas Whiting had a boarding school in Lambeth from about 1785 to 1795, thereafter a larger establishment, referred to on the title-page here as Keppel-House Seminary.