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EUCLID. -- BYRNE, Oliver. 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. London: William Pickering, 1847.
4o (233 x 191 mm). xxix, 268 pp., color diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow and black; wood-engraved initials. Publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine (some light rubbing). Provenance: William F. Ross (signature dated 1858 on half-title, bookplate); Hew Gwen?, 1908 (inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION OF BYRNE'S WORK ON EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY, and a beautiful piece of color printing, in which five colors are used to illustrate the Euclidian principles. Burch page 139: "decidedly picturesque, decidedly original." Friedman 43; Ing Charles Whittingham Printer 46; Keynes Pickering pp. 37, 65; McLean Victorian Book Design p. 70; PMM (1963) part 2, 150.
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FIRST EDITION OF BYRNE'S WORK ON EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY, and a beautiful piece of color printing, in which five colors are used to illustrate the Euclidian principles. Burch page 139: "decidedly picturesque, decidedly original." Friedman 43; Ing Charles Whittingham Printer 46; Keynes Pickering pp. 37, 65; McLean Victorian Book Design p. 70; PMM (1963) part 2, 150.