A Full Explication and Demonstration of all the Rules of Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic ...
By: [By] Mr. Samuel Dickson, Inventor of the Instrument for measuring inaccessible Distances at one View ....
Publisher: Printing-Office; Mr McKenzie, Bookseller and Colleg[e] Stationer; and of Mr. [? unfinished]
Place of publication: Drogheda; Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Notes: This is an eight-page publisher's advertisement, giving examples of problems and theorems after the title and description of the work 'now ready for the press'; I have not been successful in finding the author in any bibliography consulted, or in discovering if the work was ever printed; the verso of A1 tails off with an incomplete bookseller's name, although it is followed by A2; the imprint supplied has been taken from the note (on A1v) stating that 'Copies of this Specimen, Subscribed with the Author'sow[n] name and Hand Writing, are to be had at the same Price, at t[he] Printing-Office, Drogheda' [etc]

At head of title (badly cropped, with partial loss of letters): 'Now Ready for the Press)', followed by full title, author's name and detailed description of the forthcoming work, with prices for subscribers and non-subscribers, and a statement hoping that 'the favourable [Cou]ntenance which this Specimen has received from the Dublin [Roy]al Society' will encourage' subscriptions; the pamphlet being very tightly bound, some of the letters have been obscured and are supplied in square brackets.

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