Dilworth, Thomas:

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THE SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT. BEING A COMPENDIUM OF ARITHMETIC, BOTH PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL...TO WHICH IS PREFIXT, AN ESSAY ON THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH; HUMBLY OFFERED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF ... Denoted "The Latest Edition," but one of several 18th-century printings in North America of this standard work by the English cleric and educator, Thomas Dilworth. Karpinski describes Dilworth's The Schoolmaster's Assistant as "the most popular of the early arithmetics published in America," noting that "[u]p to 1850 no other arithmetic enjoyed so many revisions." While the well-known frontispiece portrait of Dilworth, credited to pioneering New York wood engraver Alexander Anderson, is neatly affixed to the pastedown, it is thus preserved, and the folding table "of Converging Series" is intact and unsullied.Two prefatory poems, "To Mr. Thomas Dilworth, on his Compendium of Arithmetic, Intitled The Schoolmaster's Assistant" by Moses Brown and "To Mr. Thomas Dilworth, on his Schoolmaster's Assistant" by William Deane, are printed in the front matter. ESTC locates ten copies of this printing.

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