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Chromatics, : or, An essay on the analogy and harmony of colours

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A627

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Type of record: Book

Title: Chromatics, : or, An essay on the analogy and harmony of colours

Other titles: Essay on the analogy and harmony of colours

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A627

Creator(s): Field, George (1777?-1854)

Additional creator(s): Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854) (Printer); Newman, James (1757-1835) (Other); Swaisland, Charles (Former owner); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Printed for the author, by A.J. Valpy, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane; and sold by Mr Newman, Soho Square

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1817

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 57, [3] pages, [6] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729136

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019868857405181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Anonymous. By George Field. See Mansell. Pre-1956 imprints, v. 171, p. 572.

In most copies the plates and most illustrations are hand-coloured, showing various juxtapositions of colours.

250 copies of this book were published.

Bound at the end: advertisement, 2 pages, for Valpy, The Pamphleteer; or impartial record of the best pamphlets of the day, on literary, political, and religious subjects. George Field is listed as one of the authors featured in The Pamphleteer.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A627: loose excerpt front sale catalogue for this item, no. 148.

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A627: contemporary publisher's binding, green cloth, embossed, gold tooled on front cover: Field's Harmony of Colours.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A627: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDC/6. MS. inscription on front pastedown, title page and page 32: Char[les] Swaisland Crayford Kent [i.e. Charles Swaisland, nineteenth-century calico-printer at Crayford in Kent].

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