ARITHMETICAL ENDPAPERS AND HOMEMADE DUST-JACKET
POPE, William.
Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.
[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.
Manuscript on paper, 4to, pp. [74] with blanks; neatly written in a single hand in brown ink, up to 18 lines per page, with numerous pen-and-ink and ink-and-wash diagrams; bound in contemporary stationery vellum-backed boards with marbled sides and sheep tips, edges stained yellow, in a brown paper wrapper formerly affixed with red wax, bound with a letterpress ‘Collection of Useful Tables in Arithmetic’ as front endpapers (‘Tiverton: Printed and Sold by E. Boyce, in the Fore-Street’); wrapper a little worn, tailcap chipped, else very well preserved; ink inscriptions of William Pope to wrapper (‘July 23th. [sic] 1804’ and rear pastedown (‘August 8. 1804’), a longer note to rear free endpaper (‘February 24. 1789 Wm Pope Born | Tuesday at half past 1 O Clock in the Morning').
A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging to one William Pope, very well preserved in its original stationery binding and wrapper, with provincially printed arithmetic tables as endpapers.
Pope’s studies principally concern geometry and mensuration, with examples and exercises touching on their practical application. The ‘Useful Tables in Arithmetic’ printed as endpapers are largely devoted to the divisions of units of measurement.
