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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Clean pages. Firm unread binding. Includes a signed limited edition card laid in. Number 5 of 50 copies. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging. Hart, Sam (illustrator). Signed By Author.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm. Notes; Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford from 16 June to 6 September 2009 and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, from 18 February to 30 May 2010. Contents; Medieval drawing and Gothic tradition -- The paper revolution: the origin of large-scale technical drawing under Henry VIII -- The mathematical practitioner and the Elizabethan architect -- The Vitruvian model: Inigo Jones and the culture of the book -- Vision, modelling, drawing: Christopher Wren's early career -- Structure and scale: the office of works at St. Paul's -- Gentlemen, practitioners, and instrumental architecture -- Raised high, brought low: architecture and mathematics around George III -- Geometry and structure in the dome of St. Paul's cathedral / Gordon Higgott -- Catalogue checklist. Subjects; North, Roger 1651-1734. University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science (Oxford, England) ; Exhibitions Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, Conn.) ; Exhibitions. Architecture England History ; Exhibitions. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm. Notes; Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford from 16 June to 6 September 2009 and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, from 18 February to 30 May 2010. Contents; Medieval drawing and Gothic tradition -- The paper revolution: the origin of large-scale technical drawing under Henry VIII -- The mathematical practitioner and the Elizabethan architect -- The Vitruvian model: Inigo Jones and the culture of the book -- Vision, modelling, drawing: Christopher Wren's early career -- Structure and scale: the office of works at St. Paul's -- Gentlemen, practitioners, and instrumental architecture -- Raised high, brought low: architecture and mathematics around George III -- Geometry and structure in the dome of St. Paul's cathedral / Gordon Higgott -- Catalogue checklist. Subjects; North, Roger 1651-1734. University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science (Oxford, England) ; Exhibitions Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, Conn.) ; Exhibitions. Architecture England History ; Exhibitions. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.50x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.