Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Squared circles, and other poems
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Two drawing instruction books entitled Circles & Squares, Books One and Two, by Marguerite Marquart and Jean T. Mitchell, published by World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, copyright 1930 and 1931. These two books are designed to be used consecutively; Book Two builds upon the principles and lessons in Book One. Each is illustrated with lithograph line drawings. Book One "is intended to help [the] ten- and eleven-year-olds with their first difficulties in drawing three-dimensional forms, to aid the older students in 'thinking through' their problems in graphic representation... ." Book Two "is extended to squares and to true perspective for rectangular objects and their interrelation in groups." Each book consists of numerous exercises, lessons and picture studies, each with careful and detailed textual explanation and discourse. Book One is 78 pages in length; Book Two has 80 pages. Each book has the same geometrical pattern decorating the front cover; Book One is brown and Two is green. The insides of the front and back covers of Book One are decorated with miscellaneous images; the insides of the covers of Book Two are blank. The back covers of both books are blank. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. on the front cover of each book.
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