EUCLID. The First Six Books of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams andSymbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne. Color-printed wood-engraved diagrams by Charles Whittingham throughout. 4to, late 19th-/early

EUCLID. The First Six Books of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams andSymbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne. Color-printed wood-engraved diagrams by Charles Whittingham throughout. 4to, late 19th-/early 20th-century .5 navy morocco gilt; mostly marginal foxing throughout. London: William Pickering, 1847 E1500-2500 FIRST BYRNE EDITION. ONE OF 1000 COPIES. "Byrne, a mathematician and Surveyor of Crown Lands in the Falkland Islands, considered that it might be easier to learn geometry if colors were substituted for the letters usually used to designate theangles and lines of geometric figures . . . Whether this is true may be doubted, butit is certain that the book Byrne produced in support of his theory is visually striking and a triumph of color printing"- Friedman, Color Printing in England 43.