Item #23739 The Theory Of Colouring: Being An Analysis Of The Principles Of Contrast And Harmony In The Arrangement Of Colours, With Their Application To The Study of Nature, And Hints On the Composition Of Pictures, Etc. Fourth Edition, Revised And Enlarged. J. Bacon.

The Theory Of Colouring: Being An Analysis Of The Principles Of Contrast And Harmony In The Arrangement Of Colours, With Their Application To The Study of Nature, And Hints On the Composition Of Pictures, Etc. Fourth Edition, Revised And Enlarged

London: Geo. Romney, 1872. Hardcover. [x] 58 [20] pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Color frontispiece, six chromolithograph plates, one wood engraving. The 20 pages represent publisher ads at rear. Originally published about 1866, this was a long popular manual. The Bacon manual stresses binary and triadic color harmonies unencumbered by the long disquisition's on aesthetics that mark most French treatises. Bright, very fresh copy. Yellow endpapers. BIRREN 23. Orig. blue cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt and blind. Aeg. Near fine. Item #23739

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