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Total number of records: 99

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Brotherton Collection24
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color31
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)21
Field, George (1777?-1854)5
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)4
Ozenfant, Amedee (1886-1966)4
Anderson, William (1842-1900)2
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)2
Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942)2
Bristow, Ian C2
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Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-1899)2

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Experiments and considerations touching colours : first occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend, and now suffer'd to come abroad as The beginning of an experimental history of colours

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

1670

This 2nd ed. "has been completely reset, but follows the 1664 edition sheet for sheet and page for page"--J.F. Fulton, A bibl. of the Hon. Robert Boyle, no. 58.

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

Field, George (1777?-1854); Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854); Newman, James (1757-1835); Swaisland, Charles; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1817

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 copie...

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The art of colour decoration : being an explanation of the purposes to be kept in view and the means of attaining them

Crace, John D (1838-1919); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1912]

Date taken from preface.

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The art of colour decoration : being an explanation of the purposes to be kept in view and the means of attaining them

Crace, John D (1838-1919); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1912]

Date taken from preface.

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Interaction of color

Albers, Josef (1888-1976)

1963

Box contains 80 folders of col. illus. and "Commentary" (48 p.).

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Colour : a manual of its theory and practice

Carpenter, H Barrett (1861-1930); Carpenter, Marjorie Annie

[1933]

"Preface to the new edition" signed: Marjorie A. Carpenter.

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Recherches expérimentales sur la cause des changemens de couleurs : dans les corps opaques et naturellement colorés

Delaval, Edward Hussey (1729-1814); Quatremère Disjonval, Denis Bernard

1778

Title vignette, head and tail-pieces.

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Goethe's theory of colours : tr. from the German

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832); Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock (1793-1865)

1840

Indexed in: Babson Newton Collection 151.

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