BYRNE, OLIVER, THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID, LONDON: 1847, ONLY EDITION

Small 4to (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 24 x 19 cm). Profusely illustrated throughout with color-printed diagrams in red, blue, and yellow, woodcut headpieces and initials; foxing, some offsetting. Publishers drab boards, paper label to upper board, green linen spine; edges rubbed, corners bumped, spine sunned, some fraying to head and tail of spine.  In green half morocco clamshell case, spine gilt lettered.

Campbell L. Hendricks (bookplate to front pastedown) 

Friedman 43 McLean 70

Small 4to (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 24 x 19cm). Profusely illustrated throughout with color-printed diagrams in red, blue, and yellow, woodcut headpieces and initials; foxing, some offsetting. Publishers drab boards, paper label to upper board, green linen spine; edges rubbed, corners bumped, spine sunned, some fraying to head and tail of spine. In green half morocco clamshell case, spine gilt lettered.
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Only edition. Byrne's stunning rendering of Euclidean geometry, printed in primary colors, deemed "[o]ne of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century" (McLean).