EUCLID. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of beginners, edited by Oliver Byrne, London: William Pickering [printed by Charles Whittingham], 1847, 4°, diagrams printed in red, blue, yellow and black (lacks half title, some browning and staining), late 19th-century red half morocco gilt with crest of a corn sheaf (rubbed), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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EUCLID. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of beginners, edited by Oliver Byrne, London: William Pickering [printed by Charles Whittingham], 1847, 4°, diagrams printed in red, blue, yellow and black (lacks half title, some browning and staining), late 19th-century red half morocco gilt with crest of a corn sheaf (rubbed), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

Lot Essay

"One of the oddest and most beautful books of the whole century ... a decided complication of Euclid, but a triumph for Charles Whittingham" (R. McLean Victorian Book Design, 1972, p. 70).

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