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SIXTH EDITION FINE COPY IN A RECENT FULL LEATHER BINDING. 32mo (3.5 by 5.5 inches). MABBUT’S BOOK COMPRISES 108 PAGES INCLUDING A ONE-PAGE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED BY ASTLEY. IT IS BOUND WITH ‘THE MONY’D MAN’S POCKET-BOOK BEING TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST (102 PAGES). INTERESTINGLY NEWTON’S BOOK HAS A NOTE FROM ASTLEY POINTING OUT THAT THERE IS A ‘SPURIOUS EDITION OF THE BOOK WHICH IS VERY IMPERFECT AND CONSEQUENTLY A GREAT ABUSE AND IMPOSITION TO THE PUBLIC’. TO DISTINGUISH THE CORRECT AND GENUINE COPIES ASTLEY HAS EXAMINED THE BOOK AND SIGNED THE BACK OF THE TITLE PAGE. ALSO THE TABLES OF INTEREST ARE SIGNED BY ASTLEY AS A GUARANTEE OF THEIR ACCURACY. HE STATES THAT IF THE TABLES SIGNED BY HIM ARE FOUND TO BE IN ERROR OF A PENNY HE WILL ‘GIVE A PERFECT AND CORRECT COPY IN THE ROOM OF IT’. THE FRONT PASTEDOWN HAS THE AMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF THOMAS HOLME OF HOLME HALL (CUMBRIA). A FINE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE ITEM.