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Housson, Ann.
[A Quaker girl’s arithmetic manuscript].
Publisher: Ackworth School;
Date of Publication: 1820
Stock Code: 15149
Quarto, 38 folios of mathematical notes in ink on laid paper, Husson’s birth certificate mounted to end. Original stab-stitched blue card wraps in brown paper dust-wrapper, titled and dated in manuscript to upper cover of wraps and upper panel of wrapper. Rubbing and ink-spotting to wrapper. Text-block detached from wraps; soiling to card wraps. Toning and soiling to first and final folios. A practical classroom book, well-preserved given its frequent use by the author. A book of mathematical exercises written by one Ann Housson between the ages of 11 and 12, a pupil at Ackworth School, Pontefract. Neatly written in a single, highly legible hand with calligraphic and ornamental titles. The contents include simple division, multiplication, and addition. Ackworth School is a private boarding school founded in 1779 for Quaker children. A robust example of how a young girl learned mathematics at the turn of the nineteenth century. £125.00