copyright 1927, Second Edition "With Some Fuller Solutions and Additional Notes"; Thomas Nelson and Sons publishers, London; hardbound; well illustrated; very good condition with minor age foxing on pages; no dust jacket.
 
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Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857–1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of puzzles. The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems is a 1907 mathematical puzzle book by Henry Dudeney. The first part of the book features a series of puzzles based on the characters from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer. Contains illustrations, explanations and answers to each puzzle and is still actual in testing your mathematical skills and your capacity of problem solving.