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An index to interest: : containing, I. The largest tables of simple interest that have yet been made publick; shewing the same, at once, for any number of days in the whole year, and thence annually to 20 years, at all the usual rates. II. A table of discount for any number of days not exceeding 365. III. Two tables shewing, by inspection, the present worth of annuities, and the purchase thereof; all done in vulgar numbers without decimals. IV. An easie table for the valuation of any number of years lapsed in a church or college-lease of land, shewing the fines payable at one view. V. Tables of the amount and present worth of any sum of money, and of annuities to 61 years, and rules to apply them for 122 years. Also the full use of all the tables; and how the same may be calculated and examined by vulgar, decimal and logarithmical arithmetick, and the simple interest also by practice. Likewise easie rules for valuation of 1, 2, and 3 lives. Together with a new invented circle for the easie finding the number of days contain'd between any two in the year. Useful for lawyers, merchants, scriveners, and all others who receive and pay interest-money. / By E. Hatton, philomath..
London: : Printed and sold by Mr. Harper, Mr. Brown, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Tonson, Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Mount, Mr. Sprint, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Midwinter, Mr. Strahan, Mr. Holland, Mr. Gouge,, 1711..
[103], 90-117, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm. (8vo.)
Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate), signed: "W Sherwin sculp.".
The final plate is a volvelle.
Signatures: pi⁴ (-pi4) A-H⁴ (*)⁴ (I)-(P)⁴.
Signature-marks (K)-(P) printed in square brackets.
With a final advertisement leaf.
Title in double ruled border.
ESTC, T116561
Goldsmiths' 4764; Hanson 1394
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington inside back cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1731. Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Contemporary light brown calf; blind tooled double fillet concentric frames, with swag and sprig roll on inner frame; blind tooled grape fleuron on each corner of inner frame; sprinkled calf except from inner frame, left blank; gold tooled roll on board edges; red morocco spine label with gold tooled triple fillet and title; five raised bands; red and green sprinkled edges.
Previous shelfmark: Dk.4.12.
Interest Tables Early works to 1800.
Harper, Charles, fl. 1670 - 1709 bookseller.
Browne, Daniel, 1647 - 1727 bookseller.
Freeman, William, fl. 1682 - 1715 bookseller.
Tonson, Jacob, 1656? - 1736 bookseller.
Goodwin, Timothy, 1670 - 1729 bookseller.
Mount, Richard, ? - 1722 bookseller.
Sprint, John, ? - -1729 bookseller.
Vincent, Robert, active 1691 - 1713 bookseller.
Midwinter, Daniel, active 1698 - 1725 bookseller.
Strahan, George, ? - d. 1752 bookseller.
Holland, James, fl. 1707 - 1727 bookseller.
Gouge, John, active 1700 - 1727 bookseller.
Sherwin, William, active 1670 - 1710 engraver.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
England London.
B47862