Author: Rickard, William
Title: The Miner's Manual of Arithmetic and Surveying
Publication Information: Truro: Heard and Sons, Boscawen Street; London: Longman and Co., Paternoster Row 1859
Call #: TN 269 .R5M5
Book Size: 22.5 cm (H); 14.5 cm (L); 2 cm (spine)
Cover: blue black cover (faded); front and back have an embossed ruled edge, and embossed geometric framework design; spine has title and author in gold letters and some floral embossed design that does not correlate with the cover; morocco grain cover.
Inside Book Covers: plain inside papers
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations:
Comments:
- Dedication to Lord Viscount Falmouth (Liverpool, Feb. 3, 1859)
- Preface by the Author (Liverpool, Feb 8, 1859)
- Table of Contents has descriptive titles (no chapter numbers)
- Note pull outs in the back - and the colors (especially the brilliant green)
- Note list of subscribers in the back
- Filled with math calculations
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century British Text Production
- Mining and Engineering
- Maps
- Publication through Subscription
