Colour.- Chevreul (Michel Eugène) The Laws of Contrast of Colour: and their application to the Arts…, translated by John Spanton, second edition of this translation, colour frontispiece, 3 plates, one with overlay, advertisement leaf at end, original pinkish brown cloth with border in blind, a little rubbed, spine faded, G.Routledge & Son, 1858; another edition, 17 wood-engraved plates, one with overlay, the rest printed in colours by Edmund Evans, original blue cloth, gilt, with onlaid red paper triangles and inverted gilt triangle surrounded by gilt starburst, spine gilt, rubbed, recased preserving original backstrip, [Abbey, Life 107; McLean VBD p.182], London and New York, Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859 § Unesma. 24 Farbentafeln, 24 cards of colour gradations, each with 36 colour samples and tissue guard, loose as issued in card folder, with illustrated text booklet in original card slip-case (unstuck along side), Berlin, 1933; and 16 others on colour and colour theory including a worn copy of Ishihara's Tests for Colour-Blindness, 8vo & 4to (19)

⁂ On colour and colour theory. The Chevreul was the first book in English on the subject of colour to use colour-printing. It was extremely popular and many editions and issues were published. The colour samples in the Unesma album are based on those first published in Wilhelm Ostwald’s Die Farbenfibel in 1917. Library Hub records only 3 copies of this 1933 work, one at Yale and two on the Continent.