8vo. [4], 211pp, [1]. Contemporary green cloth, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, heavily sunned. Scattered spotting.

The seventh edition of a mathematics textbook by James Wood (1760-1839), mathematician and later Dean of Ely. Wood, scholar, President, and Master of St Johns College, Cambridge, published The principles of mathematics and natural philosophy, (1795-99), which was printed, in four volumes, by J. Burges.