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EUCLID - OLIVER BYRNE 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 Learner, [Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for] William Pickering, 1847
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EUCLID - OLIVER BYRNE
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 Learner, half-title, illustrations and diagrams printed in 4 colours, some foxing throughout, publisher's blue gilt and blind-stamped cloth gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving original spine [Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer, 46; Keynes, Pickering, pp.37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp.50-51], 4to, [Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for] William Pickering, 1847
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION OF OLIVER BYRNE'S EUCLID, "ONE OF THE ODDEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF THE WHOLE CENTURY... a triumph for Charles Whittingham " (Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design and Printing, 1963).
Provenance: N.H. Burns, December 1867, ink ownership inscription, with bookseller blind-stamp of Winterborn of Bolton on front free endpaper.