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Color Source Book: A Reference For Fashion, Industrial & Interior Designers, Graphic Artists, Crafts People & Teachers & Students of Art or Home Economics. Pristine black cloth covered Hardcover with DJ. Very good condition, DJ as new. Tight binding. 103 pages with 246 tipped in large rectangular colour chips presenting 48 key 'chromatic' schemes, also 48 black and white illustrations. Color chips bright and unfaded. Clean, unmarked pages. Very light foxing in small area on upper edge of text block. 11¼" x 8¾"

Illustrated with 6 plates of 134 water-color samples gradated and tipped in by hand on Whatman's drawing paper. With a one-page introduction by John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the Victorian era, as well as art patron, water-colorist and prominent social thinker and philanthropist. The introductory essay by J. Scott Taylor, editor of Fields Chromatography, deals with the durability of pigments when exposed to sunlight, followed by chapters on sources of pigments and descriptions of pigments. Very Good condition. Grey Hard cover, some darkening on upper edge with small area of foxing, 2 small spots of foxing on front edge and very slight damage to top and bottom of spine. Defects consistent with age. Pages and plates are clean and in very good condition. The color samples are bright and substantiates the claim of the color permanence of Winsor & Newton colors. Collectible. From the Library of Harold Lloyd, silent comedy movie star. "Lloyd studied colors and microscopy, and was… Read More