Shelfmark
Le.4.44
Author
Title
The principal averages and the laws of error which lead to them / by J. M. Keynes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Printed for private circulation, 1911. (London : Harrison and Sons)
Physical description
[2], 323-331, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Note
Cover title.
Note
Offprint: "Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society vol. LXXIV, part III (February, 1911)."
Note
Publication statement in round brackets on front wrapper; printer statement from colophon.
Note
Original light blue printed paper wrappers.
Summary, etc.
Scope and content: In 1909 Keynes won the University of Cambridge's Adam Smith Prize for an essay on the construction of index numbers of general exchange value or the price level, and material from the essay's Appendix B was then revised for publication, anticipating his later work on probability.
Provenance
From the library of Arthur Berry (1862-1929), King's College Cambridge, and with a pencil annotation ("historical stuff on p. 329") in his hand on the front wrapper.
Provenance
Numbered in pencil "124" on front wrapper; item no. 124 in typed inventory of Berry's papers by Samuel Lilley (1914-1987), A collection of mathematical papers ... formerly in the library of the late Arthur Berry"; presumably bequeathed by him to the University of Nottingham (deaccessioned and sold on their behalf).
Subject
Probabilities.
Added entry--name
Berry, Arthur, 1862 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Lilley, Samuel, 1914 - 1987 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
University of Nottingham former owner.
Added entry--name
Harrison & Sons printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B53015