Album of commercial arithmetic exercises

(Arithmetic. Commercial.) [PRATT (Richard, owner)]

Album of commercial arithmetic exercises

Description: neat manuscript in ink on paper, text in brown ink, brackets, underlinings, &c, in red, a little staining here and there, 1 leaf with the lower half excised, 47 leaves, 4to, original vellum, owner's name in ink in 3 places on covers, good

Publication Details: [London: 1818]

Notes: This is a fairly standard exercise book for a course of commercial arithmetic, largely taken up with exchange in the various countries of Europe - the examples all dated 1790. What makes this volume more interesting is the presence of 'A Collection of Arithmetical Tables, Printed for and Sold by J. Camp, West-Smithfield', an oblong folio broadside, printed in columns (2, 3, or 4), and apparently unrecorded. John Camp was a bookseller, stationer and bookbinder (see Howe and Ramsden) and it was he no doubt who provided the vellum notebook....moreThis is a fairly standard exercise book for a course of commercial arithmetic, largely taken up with exchange in the various countries of Europe - the examples all dated 1790. What makes this volume more interesting is the presence of 'A Collection of Arithmetical Tables, Printed for and Sold by J. Camp, West-Smithfield', an oblong folio broadside, printed in columns (2, 3, or 4), and apparently unrecorded. John Camp was a bookseller, stationer and bookbinder (see Howe and Ramsden) and it was he no doubt who provided the vellum notebook. HIDE