1844 Comic Arithmetic

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition.

Alfred Crowquill's comical textbook of arithmetic, presenting humorous anecdotes and poems exploring maths. 

Illustrated with an engraved title, and in-text engravings throughout. 

Crowquill was the pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forester, an eminent Victorian caricaturist.

Three pages of adverts to the rear.

From the library of American-British mathematician David Singmaster, with his ink inscription to the front paste down. Singmaster was emeritus professor of mathematics at London South Bank University, and was a puzzle historian, a big fan of mechanical puzzles, and an early adopter and promoter of the Rubik's Cube.