Educational and Industrial Drawing: Mechanical Series, Nos. 1 + 2

Softcover wraps, 9 x 12 inches. Introductory remarks dated 1893. Numbers one and two of the six drawing books in Thompson's "Mechanical Series." Text pages interleaved with blank heavyweight drawing paper. The cover of book 1 has a small closed tear at the foredge, otherwise both are VG+ to Near Fine--nice and sturdy, clean, unused copies. The text pages are reproduced (out of order) from the teacher's manual, and provide a series of word problems with further explanations and definitions at the beginning and end. The numbered problems continue directly from book one to two, 45 in total. Two flow charts for the Analytical and Synthetic Schemes are presented on the first two pages of book 1, quietly exuberant in their delineations of the task at hand. Langdon Shook Thompson presented his "Educational and Industrial System of Drawing" as an experienced guide through others' methodologies, not as an original invention of his own. He published an arguably dizzying number of series and vari