Howard's Art of Reckoning 1895

Binding: Hard cover  
Condition:  Medium. The cover is worn and the spine, though present, is loose. The binding of the front cover is also loose from the book. The first page has a small tear but otherwise intact with all pages present.
Edition: First Edition 1949

This book was written by C. Frusher Howard in 1874 and this copy is the 1895 edition. C. Frusher Howard was the alias of Joseph Ostler (Frusher was his mothers maiden name) and he was the first district secretary of the Moorabbin Roads Board. He absconded with its funds in 1867. After some time in the goldfields of U.S.A. and a bigamous marriage he published The Art of Reckoning which was highly successful in Britain and U.S.A. He was able to pay back the money he had embezzled. He advertised that he was a Fellow of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, London, but this was a profit-making society owned by an individual and enabled members to wear academic dress and use the title of Professor. Ostler had in reality no academic qualifications. In the early 1890s he lectured on his ideas on mathematical calculation and publicized his four books in India, Egypt, Palestine and South Africa. In 1896 he returned to Australia and at the 1896-7 Warrnambool Industrial and Art Exhibition Howard gave daily lectures on mathematical calculations and illustrated these with the aid of a blackboard.

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