Description: A Written Arithmetic For Common and Higher Schools To Which Is Adapted A Complete System Of Reviews In The Form Of Dictation Exercises By G. A. Walton Principal of Oliver Grammar School , Lawrence Massachusetts Published by Brewer And Tileston Boston 1868 Antique hardcover. Leather spine, stamped cloth over boards. 4.75" x 7.25" 348 pages. Post Civil War era. 155 years old. Numbers , Fractions , Federal Money , Compound Demoninate Numbers ( Money , Weight , Measures , Time , Latitude & Longitude , etc.), Decimals , Percentage , Interest , Banking , Involition and Evolution , Square Roots , Cube Roots , Geometric Shapes , Progressions , Annuities , etc., etc. Also, Methods of Computing Time , Mensuration of Timber , Gauging , Metric System , etc. See below for biographical information on the author, G. A. Walton. -------- Very Good Condition. Just light binding wear. Some scuffing/wear to the spine leather. The covers remain very well attached; no splitting in the leather. The hinges are tight. On the front pastedown endpaper is a very old book agent's listing for school books published by Brewer & Tileston : " Judson W. Shae , Eastman's Bookstore , Concord , New Hampshire " No other markings. A few pages have a small corner-crease. A couple of pages toward the rear have a small tear at the outer margin. The pages are otherwise good. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer. -------- Biographical information : George Augustus Walton ( 1822 - 1908 ) Born in South Reading ( now Wakefield ), Massachusetts , on February 18, 1822, the son of James and Elizabeth ( Bryant ) Walton, he was a lineal descendant of the Rev. William Walton, whose services as minister of the gospel at Marblehead covered a period of 30 years, 1638-1668. He was a graduate of the Bridgewater Normal School and received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams College. For years he was principal of the Oliver Grammar School in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Subsequently, as a teacher in teachers' institutes in New England, also in New York and Virginia, he became widely known and influential. From 1871, for 25 years, he was agent of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. He died aged 86 years on November 7, 1908 , at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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Binding: Leather
Mathematics Math: Federal Money Time Mensuration
Place of Publication: Boston
Language: English
Special Attributes: Post Civil War Era
Author: George Augustus Walton
Region: North America
Publisher: Brewer and Tileston
Topic: Mathematics
Subject: Science & Medicine
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1868
