Paper.- Strathmore Paper Company. A Grammar of Color. Arrangements of Strathmore Papers...according to the Munsell Color System, first edition, 19 folding paper samples with different colour combinations, without the sleeve containing the additional sheets 20-46, Mittineague, Mass., 1921 § District of Columbia Paper Manufacturing Company. Designs & Typography for Cover Paper, paper samples, lacking leaf of colour samples, Washington D.C., 1924 § Roberts (John E.) The Dyeing of Paper, mounted colour samples, Washington D.C., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. Dyestuffs Department, 1924 § Dennison Manufacturing Co. Art and Decoration in Crepe and Tissue Paper, twenty-third edition, with card of colour paper samples, some foxing, Framlingham, Mass., 1917 § Halama (Dr. M.) Transparentfolien (Cellophan, Transparit, Heliozell, Ultraphan usw.), first edition, 17 sample sheets, some colour and/or printed, one loose, with 3 samples of metal sheeting mounted on one text leaf, advertisements printed on pale green paper, original gold boards, spine slightly faded, Berlin, Bodenbender, 1932 § Ackerman (Phyllis) Wallpaper: Its History, Design and Use, original cloth, New York, 1938 § Byler's Store. Annual Broadcaster Wallpaper Sale, 10 samples of Pearce floral wallpaper, loose as issued in original paper wrapper with details and prices, split to fold repaired with tape, Painesville, Oh., 1930, most trade catalogues, the first four original cloth-backed boards, all a little rubbed; and 14 others on paper, wallpaper & decorated paper including 4 accounts of the life and miracles of saints canonized in 1866 and 1867 bound in contemporary brown embossed floral boards (each one different), 4to & 8vo (21)

⁂ The first mentioned is the first presentation of the Munsell colour system to the printing, advertising and paper trade. Albert Munsell was an artist and professor of art who wanted to develop a way to teach his students about colour. Instead of using names to describe colours he developed a decimal notation to describe specific colours based on the relationship between hue (the basic colour), value (lightness of the colour), and chroma (intensity of the colour). Munsell was the first to explain the relationship between these three things. The Strathmore Paper Company used Munsell’s colour system not only to advertise its papers, but also to show how the Munsell system could be used in the trade.

The fifth item is one of the earliest works on various forms of transparent papers.