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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 learners, edited by Oliver Byrne, London: William Pickering [printed by Charles Whittingham], 1847.
4° (237 x 183mm.), diagrams printed in red, blue, yellow and black (lacks half title and introduction leaves, persistent spotting and browning), contemporary red half calf (rubbed and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. "One of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century ... a decided complication of Euclid, but a triumph for Charles Whittingham" (R. Mclean Victorian Book Design, 1972, p. 70).
4° (237 x 183mm.), diagrams printed in red, blue, yellow and black (lacks half title and introduction leaves, persistent spotting and browning), contemporary red half calf (rubbed and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. "One of the oddest and most beautiful 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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