comic arithmetic (15 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Cloth. Zustand: Good. [Alfred Crowquill]; [Alfred Henry Forrester] (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated comical textbook on maths by Arthur Crowquill. 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. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little worn, with loss to the spine. Tears to the rear joint. Light rubbing and discolouration to the cloth. Minor bumping to the extremities. Front endpaper has been removed. Prior owner's ink to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean, with some handling marks. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. iv 177 + (3) adverts wood cut text illustrations. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks. Contempoary 1/2 dark blue leather cloth sides some fading to the cloth upper cover. The binding clean and tight with no splis or chips.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Bound in in red polished calf with raised bands and gilt decorations. Cover shows minor rubbing to the extremities, fading, and joints starting. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are tanned.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 177, [3]; VG-; bound in unsigned full red morocco, paneled spine with gilt titling and tooling; top edge gilt; gilt turn-ins, fabric pastedowns and endpapers; some rubbing and general shelfwear to binding, including wear at hinges; ink dot stain to bottom edge of text block; binding open at rear ads; title page with 'Author's Copy / Copyright P.P.' in ink above title; shelved case 12. 1360921. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. 12mo. pp. xiv, [2], 128. frontis. & many text illus. engraved in wood by Percy Cruikshank after Forrester's designs. original gilt & blind-stamped decorative cloth, all edges gilt (bit rubbed, extremities slightly frayed, spine dull, one gathering partly sprung. First Edition. Osborne II 708.

FIRST EDITIONS. 195 x 121 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 3/4"). Three volumes. Pleasing contemporary polished calf, gilt, for Brentano's of New York (stamped on verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, azured circles at corners, raised bands, spine attractively gilt in compartments featuring a central floral spring within a strapwork oval, curling cornerpieces, brown morocco label, marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Original buckram front covers with gilt pictorial designs bound in at rear. English with frontispiece, tailpiece, and 48 illustrations, after drawings by John Leech; "Latin with 54 illustrations in text, and eight engraved plates after drawings by Leech; "Arithmetic" with 48 illustrations (including title page vignette), by A. H. Forrester (who worked under the pseudonym "Alfred Crowquill"). Houfe, pp. 367-68 ("English"); p. 273 ("Arithmetic"). âSpines a little darkened, joints and extremities a bit rubbed, minor scratches and abrasions to boards, contents faintly foxed, other trivial imperfections, but a once quite pretty and still very presentable set, the text generally clean and fresh, the decorative bindings solid, and with an appealing shelf appearance. This is an attractively bound compendium of school humor for readers young and old. "English Grammar" is replete with jokes and puns playing off the vagaries and idiosyncrasies of that subject. In "Latin Grammar," the author plays with that classical languageâ"which in his day was a regular and often painful part of a young scholar's curriculumâ"to create linguistic puns and bloopers. For readers whose Latin is a bit rusty, the funniest part of the book will perhaps be the illustrations of schoolboy life, featuring gangling teachers and impish youths. Percival Leigh (1813-89) became friends with John Leech (1817-64) when the two were attending medical school. They found they both had a greater liking for comedy than for doctoring, and Leigh turned to humorous writing, while Leech became an illustrator, contributing the sketches to most of Leigh's books. Both were associated with the quintessentially British journal "Punch" almost from its inception. Inspired by the success of the first two works here, "Comic Arithmetic" is a medley of satirical witticisms that uses mathematical terms such as "equality" and "division" as chapter headings in order to enable the author to comment on the ills of society. There are varying opinions about the identity of the author, but whoever he may be, he sometimes breaks into verse, taking aim indiscriminately at clergymen, lawyers, old maids, and ethnic minorities, and he asserts that everyone is motivated by self-interest. The drawings, in general, show a lively talent for caricature. The artist, Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-72), illustrated and sometimes wrote comic works under the pseudonym "Alfred Crowquill," a sobriquet he at first shared with his brother Charles Robert Forrester (1803-50). Alfred began as a journalist but studied art in order to illustrate his own works. He wrote children's books as well as comic sketches, and his illustrations were much in demand, appearing in "Punch" and other journals.

First editions. Leech, John. First editions. With illustrations (mostly wood engravings) by John Leech. 3 vols. 12mo. Houfe, John Leech and the Victorian Scene, pp. 41-2 Bound in full polished tan calf gilt spines, t.e.g. by Root, rebacked with spines laid, internally fine, and attractive overall With illustrations (mostly wood engravings) by John Leech. 3 vols. 12mo.