Contemporary bookplate of Yorkshire gentleman Ellerker Bradshaw of Risby and modern bookplate of computer pioneer and book collector Erwin Tomash (1921-2012). Bradshaw's signature and inscription, dated 1707, to preliminary blank. A "...mathematical bestseller in Georgian England and Ireland... [It] was attractive not only to school boys trying to learn mathematics for the first time, but also... to adult readers eager to have an easy, portable mathematical compendium in the vernacular." The work went through twelve printings in London, Dublin printings, and a French translation. Ward dedicates the present work to Sir John Wentworth of North Elm's Hall in West Yorkshire, who not only encouraged the publication of the work but actually read Ward's manuscript. Ward also includes a laudation from two famous Newtonian mathematicians, Joseph Raphson (fl. 1689-1712), and Humphrey Ditton (1675-1714), which strongly suggests Ward's connections with the rising Newtonian movement within the Royal Society. Ellerker Bradshaw of Risby (1680-1742) was MP for Beverly in 1727-9. Bradshaw's inscription on the preliminary blank notes, in Latin, that he received the book from a friend. The fine morocco binding also indicates that it was a gift, possibly from the author or the dedicatee.