Records arithmeticke
Subtitle: contayning the ground of arts: in which is taught the generall parts, rules, and operations, of the same in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact methode then euer heretofore
By: first written by Robert Record, Doctor in Phisicke. Since corrected and beautified by many notations, and augmented with most briefe rules of practise and others; necessarie in the trade of merchandise. Whereunto is added certaine tables of the valuation of all coynes ... with diuers other tables and their explication. Very profitable and delightfull vnto all marchants, gentlemen, and others, as by the contents of this booke doth appeare. By Iohn Mellis. Also the art and application of decimall arithmeticke: a table of board and timber measure, and the vse thereof. The extraction and demonstration of the square and cubicke roots, with necessary questions and tables for interest after ten in the hundreth is newly therevnto adioyned. By R.N.
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Roger Iackson
Published: 1615
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1900
Other titles: Ground of artes.
Work titles: Ground of artes
Notes: R.N. = Robert Norton, whose name appears on A2v.

Originally published as "The ground of artes".

Printer's name from STC.

Formerly STC 20815.

"No known copy has the table of board and timber measure, but it was prob. the folding sheet [STC] 18676.5"--STC. The folded table present in this edition is of weights and measures.

With a final leaf bearing a poem on recto and an advertisement on verso; the last leaf is blank.

STC (2nd ed.) 20806.5.

Imperfect; many pages repaired.

Full calf rebacked.