[Rarebooks] FS: 2 Artist's & Craftsmen's Color Guides with Color Chips

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TWO ARTIST'S & CRAFTSMEN'S COLOR GUIDES -

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“A Grammar of Colouring applied to Decorative Painting and the Arts by
George Field, revised, enlarged and adapted to the use of the Ornamental
Painter and Designer by Ellis A. Davidson”

By George Field & Ellis A. Davidson.

Published in London; Lockwood & Co. in 1875.

DISCUSSION: George Field [1777-1854] was a manufacturer of pigments and
the author of several books on color, and was the subject of a 1989
exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The first edition of his landmark
"Chromatography" was published in 1835, and the book went through a number
of editions and revisions over the years, many radically changed. This
edition, tailored to the needs of ornamental painters, was first published
in 1874, and may well contain more by Davidson than Field. It also
contains material on Egyptian, Greek, Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance
style and coloring.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. Xvi + 224 pages, with 38 wood engraved
illustrations in the text and 2 chromolithographed plates; plus 48 pages
listing the publisher's other books. Publisher's green cloth.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers scuffed and soiled, minor internal soil, several
binding cracks and entire binding somewhat tender and loose.

PRICE:  $125 -

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“Paint & Colour Mixing. A Practical Handbook for Painters, Decorators,
Paint Manufacturers, Artists, and all who have to mix colours”

By Arthur Seymour Jennings.

Published in London by The Trade Papers Publishing Co. & New York by Spon
& Chamberlain in 1926. 7th edition.

DISCUSSION: First published in 1902, this book contained "over 300 samples
of actual oil and water-paints and water-colours of various colours". The
colors are all carefully described, and each plate was supplied by the
manufacturer itself. The paints include semi-paste gloss paints, flat wall
paints, wood stains, sanitary stains, Winsor & Newton artists' water
colours, and more. Jennings was the editor of the Decorator magazine and a
prolific author.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 5.5"x8.5", xii + 341 pages, 15 plates of mounted
color samples.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers worn and soiled, white library number on the
spine, small library stamp on the back of the title page, first signature
detached but present, adhesion spot on page 125/6 affecting a few letters
of text, minor internal soil.

PRICE:  $125 -

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