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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

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 by [Euclid] Byrne, Oliver

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
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
Author
[Euclid] Byrne, Oliver
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: William Pickering, 1847. First edition. Quarto (233 x 188 mm). A Very Good copy. Geometric title page vignette and extensive diagrams printed in red, yellow, and blue, wood-engraved headpieces, ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick, text printed in Caslon old-face type. Contemporary blue pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, black coated endpapers, edges red. With 1918 pencil ownership signature to half-title. Light bumping, wear, and cockling, front joint starting at foot but holding firm, spine ends a little chipped, moderate foxing to contents, as commonly, minor damp staining to lower outer corner of final leaves, colors still bright. The only edition of Byrne's stunning rendering of Euclidean geometry, it has been deemed "one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century" (McLean). Printed in primary colors and black, Byrne's choice of method was both practical and aesthetic. In addition to creating a beautiful text, "the stark use of primary colors was envisaged by Byrne as a teaching aid" in which "each page is a unique riot of red, yellow, and blue, attaining a verve not seen again on book pages till the days of Dufy, Matisse, and Derain" (McLean). Byrne (1810 - 1880) was a self-educated Irish mathematician and engineer who "considered that it might be easier to learn geometry if colours were substituted for the letters usually used to designate the angles and lines of geometric figures. Instead of referring to, say, 'angle ABC', Byrne's text substituted a blue or yellow or red section equivalent to similarly coloured sections in the theorem's main diagram" (Friedman). His style prefigures the modernist experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Keynes, Pickering, pp. 37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70.
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Wharton, Edith

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THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
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Wharton, Edith
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Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1905. [read this description!] With Illustrations by A.B. Wenzell. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Original red cloth. First Edition, early but not first printing, of Edith Wharton's first major novel, which had "the most rapid sale of any book ever published by Scribner" at the time. The novel "covers the last seventeen months in the life of Lily Bart, a beautiful and fashionable but also penniless and imprudent young woman in her late twenties. The action... is spurred by Lily's extraordinary capacity to get herself, at least half innocently, into situations of a doubtful, even of a scandalous, nature" [Lewis]. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH has always been complex bibliographically, and recently it has become much MORE complex -- because Garrison's 1990 Wharton bibliography has been found to be in error. It cited four 1905 printings (not so stated), listed as follows: (a) on laid paper, with no ads; (b) on laid paper, with 4 pp ads; (c) on wove paper, with 4 pp ads; and (f) on wove paper, with no ads. Perhaps because nobody could find a copy of "(a)", sellers and buyers have generally ignored the "laid paper" requirement, and incorrectly assumed that no ads = earlier; in fact, these "no ads" copies are ALL on wove paper, which is Garrison's 4th printing. Between 2016 and 2023, Prof. Donna Campbell of Washington State University delved deep into the question of why no "(a)" copies were ever encountered -- going so far as to research the ONE copy Garrison cited, at the Lilly Library -- only to discover that that copy was in fact on wove paper! In her February 2023 monograph on this "bibliographical mystery," she concludes that Garrison's "first printing" -- laid paper, no ads -- DOES NOT EXIST. She further concludes, from examining Wharton's own copies for example, that otherwise Garrison has the "states" in their correct order: new 1st printing = on laid paper, with 4 pp ads; new 2nd printing = on wove paper, with 4 pp ads; new 3rd printing = on wove paper, with no ads. In other words, copies WITH ads precede copies withOUTads! (This makes a lot more sense: why would ads be in Garrison's 2nd and 3rd printings, but not in the 1st and 4th? -- it is much more logical that ads would be in earlier printings, but removed from later printings.) This copy is on wove paper, without ads -- which is Garrison A12.I.f (listed there as the 4th printing, but now recognized as the 3rd printing). Near-fine (scarcely any soil or wear, spine slightly faded as usual).
First Among Sequels (Signed First Edition)

First Among Sequels (Signed First Edition) by Fforde, Jasper

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Title
First Among Sequels (Signed First Edition)
Author
Fforde, Jasper
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780340835753
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 398(3)pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with"1" on copyright page. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A hint of toning to page edges as is common but quite minor. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£12.99), is fresh and bright with no creasing, chipping or tears. Signed and inscribed to a reader by the author on the title page. A Thursday Next title. A gorgeous collectable copy.
Selected Poems

Selected Poems by Williams, C.K.

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Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Title
Selected Poems
Author
Williams, C.K.
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780374258818
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

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