A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive. Plates

GREGORY, Olinthus

Verlag: Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, (and others), London, 1826

Beschreibung

Fourth edition, corrected and improved. Issued in three volumes: two of text and one of plates this is the Plate Volume Only. Full contemporary red crushed calf, ruled and titled in gilt. 63 plates, mostly folding. Darkening to the boards, considerable rubbing to the joints and foxing, mostly to the margins of the plates, still a sound, good copy. Mathematician Joseph Ray's copy, with his ownership Signature: "Joseph Ray, M.D. Woodward High School, Cincinnati, [date indecipherable]. 2 volumes & plates, $15.25." Ray was a professor of mathematics and wrote several books on the subject, beginning in 1834 with *An Introduction to Ray's Eclectic Arithmetic,* the first of a series of six textbooks which became the most popular and widely used American mathematics textbooks of the 19th Century. They also formed the basis for *Ray's Mathematical Series* of textbooks. As late as 1913, annual sales exceeded a quarter of a million copies a year, and total sales of his arithmetic books alone are estimated at 120 million copies. The success of Ray's *Arithmetic* series prompted his publisher to seek an author for a corresponding set of readers. They chose William Holmes McGuffey, who joined Ray on the faculty of Woodward College, and where he wrote the *McGuffey Readers* which surpassed even Ray's *Arithmetics* to become the most popular textbooks ever written. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 299267

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, ...

Verlag: Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, (and others), London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1826

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good