RATHER FADED SPINE AND RATHER WORN BOARDS OTHERWISE VERY GOOD CONDITION GILT DECORATION ON FRONT BOARD. INCLUDES 14 PORTRAITS.TITLE PAGE PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK WITH BLACK AND WHITE ENGRAVING.
Author:
HENLEY WILLIAM ERNEST
Place, Publisher, Date:
EDINBURGH ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS 1890
2ND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED. FACSIMILE REPRINT. NEAR FINE COPY IN GREY AND CREAM BOARDS. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ISAAC NEWTON. TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING HIS WORKS.
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.
