Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: or How to Mix the Color You Really Want--Every Time.
Rockport. MA: Rockport Publishers, 1992. Reprint. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 121, richly illustrated in color. More
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Color Dimensions; Creating New Principles of Color Harmony and a Practical Equation in Color Definition.
Chicago: The Crimson Press, 1934. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 57, illustrated w/drawings & fold-out color chart. Important work on color aesthetics & psychology by its most competent scholar. More
Color; A Survey in Words and Pictures; From Ancient Mysticism to Modern Science.
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, Inc., 1963/1966. Second Printing. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 223, indexed, 250 illustrations. Rare in slipcase! Ex-library Franziska Porges Hosken (1919 - 2006), with her ownership stamp (Viennese born, Smith College and Harvard School of Design educated - one of the first women to do..... More
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. First paperback printing. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 335, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color in Western culture..... More
How to Apply Royal Worcester, Matt, Bronze, La Croix and Dresden Colors to China; A Practical Elementary Hand-Book for Amateurs, Containing Reliable Methods for Gilding, Mixing of Colors, Ground-Laying, Relief-Paste, Firing, Etc.
New York: 1891. Cloth over Boards. This practical handbook solves the difficulties attending the application of vitrifiable colors to china. This edition adds illustrations and several new chapters treating upon figures and flowers, after the Dresden methods. More
Modern Chromatics: Students' Text-Book of Color with Applications to Art and Industry.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 255, illustrated w/ color and b/w plates, includes facsimile of first American edition, 1879. More
Acme Quality No-Lustre Finish - A Sanitary, Washable and Lustreless Paint for Walls, Ceilings, Woodwork, Etc.
Detroit, MI: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1930. Original edition. Color Trade Pamphlet. Small octavo, folds out to 8" x 18" ~ 36 Colored paint chips and 3 colored illustrations. These paint chips include the "popular soft toned King Color shades...very carefully selected" and Two-Tone or Scumbled Finishes. Regular..... More
Red Brush Brand - small paint can.
Wichita, KS: Kansas Paint & Color Co., nd ca 1949. Original. 2 3/4" diameter x 2 3/4" high paint can with decorated paper cover depicting company trademark. More
Mapico Colors, Columbian Colloids.
New York: Columbian Carbon Co., 1950. Original edition. Cardboard Covers w/white plastic comb. Octavo (5" x 8 1/2") pp 50. With glossy colored paint chips on each page. These pigments are composed of "pure iron oxides" made from what was the "largest manufacturer of this type of pigment at that..... More
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