EDWARD COCKER'S ARITHMETICK 1736 FINE LEATHER BINDING, 48TH EDITION

[COCKER, Edward (1631-1675)]. Cocker’s Arithmetick: Being, a Plain and Familiar Method, Suitable to the Meanest Capacity, for the Cull Understanding of That Incomparable Art, as it is now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country. Composed by Edward Cocker, Late Practitioner in the Arts of Writing, Arithmetick, and Engraving; Being That so Long Since Promised to the World. Perused and Published, by John Hawkins, Writing-Master Near St. George’s Church in Southwark, by the Authors Correct Copy, and Commended to the World by Many Eminent Mathemeticians and Writing-Masters in and Near London. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row; R. Ware, at the Sun and Bible in Amen-Corner; and F. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, 1736.

The forty-eighth edition, carefully corrected and amended by George Fisher. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo (150 x 90 x 15 mm). Pp. [8], 183, [1]. English text. Bound in near contemporary full calf, smooth spine gilt. Marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Tables and charts in the text. Head-pieces. Adds to the initial and terminal leaves. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure with some rubbing and wear to extremities. Interior showing some light browning and toning. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce thus.