Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

London: William Pickering, 1847. First and only edition. 4to. xxix, 268 pp. Illustrated throughout with printed color diagrams in red, blue, and yellow. Publisher's quarter green cloth over paper-covered boards, printed cover label, spine and extremities worn, front joint worn; all edges trimmed, some pages unopened. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. McLean, Victoria Book Design, p. 51

Oliver Byrne's innovative edition of The Elements of Euclid, one of the most reprinted books of all time, and instrumental to the foundation of modern mathematical theory. Here printed with geometric figures and shapes in bright primary colors, considered "a masterpiece of Victorian book design, considered 'one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century" (McLean).