Description
Websters tables, for simple interest … Also his tables for compound interest … London: M. Flesher for Nicholas Bourne, 1639. [bound with] The Treasurer's almanacke … with necessary tables of Interest … being most necessary and helpfull … to the generall … grocer … fishmonger … usurer … and whoever else. Also may fitly serve for the sea. London: Printed by John Dawson, 1639. [London, M. Flesher for Nicholas Bourne; Printed by John Dawson, 1639.] 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 56 unnumbered ll. A-G8 + 16 unnumbered ll. A-B8, woodcut initials and head-pieces, contemporary calf, rebacked, some browning and waterstaining, mostly affecting text of second work
Footnote
Note: Fourth edition of Webster's Tables, a once popular but now rare little commercial almanac, bound with an unrecorded edition of the Treasurer's Almanacke, a similar, extremely rare work.
Little is known of William Webster (fl. 1625-1647), other than the information he provides himself in his works. He was a brother of the Company of Salters of London, to whom he dedicates his Tables, and by the time of the fifth edition of the work, in 1647, had been appointed cashier of the Worshipful Company of Merchants of London. Webster's Tables went through several printings (all of which are rare), and their popularity encouraged him to considerably enlarge them, resulting in the present edition. The Treasurer's Almanacke is unrecorded in this edition, which the title page describes as 'corrected and amended', and none of the earlier editions is known by more than a single copy.
Provenance: From the Library of John Jackson, Academy Place, Warrington' 1875, bookplate.