A figure composed of the tools of the trade of a mathematican or geometer, standing on two volumes of an atlas
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: Friend of the young idea in plane geometry, he teaches it to shoot by trigger-nometry! -T. H., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1824.
Publisher:
Published June 1, 1829, by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square
BEIN K8 D44 Rg697: Text uncut. Imperfect: t.p. and p. 85 badly mutilated and mounted; wrapper frayed and mounted., Signatures: [A]¹B-F⁸G³., The wrapper for the cards has title: Geometre and the mechanick powers represented in a pack of playing cards, made and sold by J Moxon att the Attlas in Warwick lane London., and First part (p. 1-53) probably written by Joseph Moxon.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Moxon at the Atlas in Warwicklane
Subject (Topic):
Geometry, Mechanics, Card games, and Playing cards