Pringle Robert Macdonald (2 results)

3rd edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Black image of cow to front board7.75ins x 5.25ins, ix, (i), 385pp, 4pp book adverts for agricultural books, 32pp list of books for country gentlemen, including 8pp plates. Previous owners signature and date (1897) to top of front free endpaper. Slightly discoloured to the spine and a few small pin prick holes to the rear board.

Pringle, Robert Macdonald. Generalized Inverse Matrices and their Statistical Applications. Pietermaritzburg: privately bound dissertation, 1968, 140pp., very good privately bound typescript or perhaps mimeograph of typescript, legal size paper, laid in: a different version of page 82 along with a small typed note / also: University of Natal Rules for Degrees (folded printed sheet, 3 sides). Scarce and probably one of only a few copies of the dissertation. - Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Department of Biometry Faculty of Agriculture, University of Natal. Pietermaritzburg, October 1968. - Professor A. A. Rayner supervised the dissertation and is listed as co-author in the published version of 1971 (Griffin's statistical monographs & courses, no. 28, New York, Hafner Pub. Co., 1971, viii, 127).