8vo. 6, [9]-58pp (complete despite this apparent pagination jump, which is found in all copies). With ten lithographed plates (lettered A-D, and numbered I-VI). Original publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth. Slightly rubbed to extremities, offsetting to glassine interleaving, else a crisp copy. Inscribed 'To Fred Bone, with the donor's best wishes. Percy House, Christmas 1864' to FFEP.

A rare and fabulously illustrated series of answers designed for students of the A.B. Pass examinations in the early years of the London University founded, as a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge, in 1835. The authorship, not explicitly stated, is inferred from the preface - which is signed Grove School, York, where the schoolmaster and popular text-book writer John Tabor taught - notes, the work is excerpted and extended from 'An Outline of the London University Course of Mathematics, containing the Questions, Solutions," &c'. Moreover, the plates lettered A-D are captioned 'From a Series of Drawings by J. Tabor, Grove School, York'.

The thoroughly detailed model answers include significant reference to the planets of our solar system, including the then recent discovery of Neptune 'justly considered one of the greatest achievements of mathematical science. Its existence was simultaneously inferred by Adams and Le Verrier, from some irregularities which were noticed in the motion of Uranus'.

COPAC and OCLC together locate copies at just four British institutions (BL, Cambridge, Oxford and NLS), and none elsewhere.