william charles press (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 236 pages. 7.00x5.00x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Fred E Ellison (illustrator). First edition. A scarce, limited edition collection of illustrations regarding the city of Bath. A fantastic collection of drawings which provides a look at historic Bath. Limited edition, numbered 178 of 250 copies. This work is printed on Whatman's Antique Paper. Hand-numbered to the edition page which explains the entire imprint of this work.A scarce publication.An unusually bright copy of this work.With twenty-four subjects total, including some buildings no longer standing in this historic city. One example of a grand building no longer standing is Nassau Grove, which stood on Orange Grove. Orange Grove, and the house were named after the Prince of Orange's visit. The name of the house was given long after the Prince's visit, due to rumours that he once resided there. It was demolished in 1900 to make way for a hotel.Other locations include Bath Abbey, Beau Nash's House, Prior Park Mansion, Pulteney Bridge, North Parade Bridge, In the publisher's original quarter calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Externally, very smart. Light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the occasional light scattered spot. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. 'One of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century' [McLean] Numerous crible initials, most text in black, but the text interspersed with a plethora of illustrations, diagrams, figures and symbolic elements printed in 4 colours. A self-educated mathematician and engineer, Byrne '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). Exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London 1851 with a price of 25 shillings, the work was exceedingly expensive and unaffordable for educators who could have put the new teaching method to practical use. Regardless, it is considered a landmark example of Victorian book production and a technical tour-de-force. Its innovative graphic conception and style prefigures the modernist experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements, The contemporary appeal remains such that the publisher Kroncker Wallis has initiated a Kickstarter campaign to complete all thirteen books of Euclid in the style of Byrne's production. [Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer, 46; Keynes, Pickering, pp.37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp.50-51]. Light shelf/edge wear, occasional offsetting and scattered spotting as typical with issue [but much cleaner than most others], else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full brown calf, gilt lettering at spine, marbeled edges. 4to. [i-Jii-xixI-xxx], 1-1268pp. Illus. (color plates).

First edition, small 4to (235 x 185 mm), xxix, [1], 268pp., with half-title, with numerous diagrams, symbols and letters printed in three brilliant colours (red, blue & yellow), text printed in Caslon old face and Caslon italic, with woodcut initials, some intermittent spotting and staining as usual, contemporary half calf, rather rubbed, rebacked with partial original spine laid-down, corners renewed, a very good sound copy. First and only edition of Byrne's Euclid, considered to be a landmark example of Victorian book production and regarded by McLean to be "one of oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century." A self-educated mathematician and engineer, Byrne "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. Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Keynes, Pickering, pp. 37 & 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70.