8vo. xi, [1], 220pp. Contemporary panelled calf. A trifle rubbed, lightly marked. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of John Gribble to FFEP.

The revised edition and extended of sometime Chief Surveyor and Gauger-General in the Excise John Ward's (fl. 1698-1709) algebra primer, first published in 1695. In his remarkably well received Young Mathematician's Guide (1706), Ward remarked that when his binomial theorem appeared in the present publication, he was under the impression that he was the first inventor of it, but had subsequently discovered, thanks to John Wallis's (1616-1703) A treatise of algebra, both historical and practical (1685), that Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) had described the same principle in 1665.