The Laws of Contrast of Colour: And their application to the Arts… Translated by John Spanton. xvi, 238 pp. Illustrated with 17 full page plates, 16 if which are chromolithographs, the black-&-white diagram with the overlay [plate #9 bound as frontispiece]. Small 8vo, 162 x 100 mm, bound in publisher’s polychrome pebbled cloth. London: Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859.
New Edition. A fine copy of this English edition of Chevreul’s profoundly influential treatise on colour. De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs was first published in 1839, with a text volume and atlas with large fold-out hand-coloured engraved and lithographic plates illustrating Chevreul’s theories. Here, the plates are substantially different in both format and illustration being in a small octavo and made by chromolithography. They are, however, no less striking and represent fine examples of chromolithographic art. The present copy is in fine condition with its original publisher’s binding well preserved and many signatures still unopened. Rare thus.
