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Tables of interest &c. Abridged for the use of schools, in order to instruct young gentlemen in decimal fractions; particularly, with respect to those most useful calculations, relating to compound interest and annuities. By John Smart, of Guildhall, London, Gent.
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SMART, John
[Tables of interest. Abridgments. 1736]
Tables of interest &c. Abridged for the use of schools, in order to instruct young gentlemen in decimal fractions; particularly, with respect to those most useful calculations, relating to compound interest and annuities. By John Smart, of Guildhall, London, Gent.
London (Place), printed by James Purser, and sold by John Noon,, 1736.
76, [2] p.; ill., tables. 23.0 cm. (8º)
With two bookseller's advertisements on the verso of the title-page, and a final leaf of errata. ESTC t45772.
Copy Notes Copy 1: Inscribed on front free-endpaper in ink John Soane / April 13: 1804. Errata list has each item struck through, and corrected in the text.
Copy 2: Bound in at the end is the title-page only of: The pleasant art of money-catching ... The third edition, John Lever, 1782, with bookseller's advertisement on verso.
Binding Copy 1: C18th quarter sheep, marbled-paper boards.
Copy 2: Early C19th tree calf, gilt-ruled spine, red morocco spine-label, yellow fore-edges. Text block augmented by a substantial number of blanks watermarked '1803'. This may be the copy of 'Smarts Tables - calf Lettd' bound by J. Wingrave for 2s. 9d. on 7 April 1805. (Spiers Box, Miscellaneous booksellers).
Reference Number 524
Additional Names J.$Wingrave, bookbinder
[Tables of interest. Abridgments. 1736]
Tables of interest &c. Abridged for the use of schools, in order to instruct young gentlemen in decimal fractions; particularly, with respect to those most useful calculations, relating to compound interest and annuities. By John Smart, of Guildhall, London, Gent.
London (Place), printed by James Purser, and sold by John Noon,, 1736.
76, [2] p.; ill., tables. 23.0 cm. (8º)
With two bookseller's advertisements on the verso of the title-page, and a final leaf of errata. ESTC t45772.
Copy Notes Copy 1: Inscribed on front free-endpaper in ink John Soane / April 13: 1804. Errata list has each item struck through, and corrected in the text.
Copy 2: Bound in at the end is the title-page only of: The pleasant art of money-catching ... The third edition, John Lever, 1782, with bookseller's advertisement on verso.
Binding Copy 1: C18th quarter sheep, marbled-paper boards.
Copy 2: Early C19th tree calf, gilt-ruled spine, red morocco spine-label, yellow fore-edges. Text block augmented by a substantial number of blanks watermarked '1803'. This may be the copy of 'Smarts Tables - calf Lettd' bound by J. Wingrave for 2s. 9d. on 7 April 1805. (Spiers Box, Miscellaneous booksellers).
Reference Number 524
Additional Names J.$Wingrave, bookbinder