Product Description
1914.
First edition.
xxx, 479pp.
, 11 plates and 415 illustrations in the text.
Theodore Andrea Cook (1867-1928) was a British art critic and writer.
In this book he finds that the spiral or helix may lie at the core of life's first principle - that of growth.
The spiral is fundamental to the structure of plants, shells, and the human body; to the periodicity of atomic elements and to an animal's horns; to microscopic DNA (the double helix) and to the Andromeda nebula.
The book shows the significance of the spiral in 426 illustrations, from a Narwhal's tusk to Durer's plan for a cylindrical helix.
From the spiral in nature, science, and art, the author suggests ideas on the essence of beauty and man's response to it.
The book has fairly recently been re-backed and re-cased in the original pinkish-red cloth covered boards with the original spine laid onto new cloth, and as a result is now tight and secure.
The boards have shelf wear with light soiling and slight fading to about 1 1/2" of the top and spine edges.
The corners are lightly bumped with a little damage and loss to the cloth on the corner tips.
The original ovelaid spine is more noticeably faded and up to about 1/2" is missing from both ends.
The contents are tight and clean and the book has new grey endpapers.
There is no inscription.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book and extra postage may apply for delivery outside the UK.
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