BARNES, William A Few Words on the Advantages of a More Common Adoption of The Mathematics as a Branch of Education, or Subject of Study. London: Whittaker and Co. (also Dorchester, Weymouth, Blandford, Wimborne, Poole, Sherborne, Bridport). 1834.

BARNES, William A Few Words on the Advantages of a More Common Adoption of The Mathematics as a Branch of Education, or Subject of Study. London: Whittaker and Co. (also Dorchester, Weymouth, Blandford, Wimborne, Poole, Sherborne, Bridport). 1834.

Small 8vo: 23 pp. Original printed wrappers, in good condition, contained in later slipcase. First edition.

William Barnes (1801-1886), Dorset poet, philologist, friend of Thomas Hardy and Alfred Tennyson, wrote a number of poems in the Dorset dialect. This work is dedicated to Major-General [Henry] Shrapnel (1761-1842), the greatest mathematician to whom the author has had the honor of being introduced, but better known for the exploding shells named after him.