chevreul michel eugène spanton john (3 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 314 pages. 6.00x0.85x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 314 pages. 6.00x1.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Illustration by M. E. Chevreul, with engraving by Edmund Evans (illustratore). First Edition. Translated from the French by John Spanton. New Edition, With Illustrations printed in Colours. First Edition of John Spanton's 1857 English translation in elaborate sunburst binding and with multiple color plates. First printing of this edition. 16mo (6.5 x 4.0 inches). xiv, 237 pp. Published with 17 full-page plates wood-engraved and printed by Edmund Evans: 1 black line diagram with flap overlay, 16 in color with tissue guards. This copy lacks Plate V. Originally bound by Fisher & Son Binders, Ivy Lane, London. Expertly re-backed with laminate and text block resewn. Original boards preserved and original backstrip laid on. Small original binder's label re-laid on rear pastedown after re-backing. Original pebble-grained blue cloth blocked in gilt and red. Striking cover design with title, "Chevreul on Colours," in gilt block letters over two superimposed triangles, one in laid-on red cloth "beneath" the other (inverted) fully stamped in gilt, all surrounded by a fine-lined gilt starburst. Gilt-tooled double rule border on front board. Spine particulars in elaborate gilt-blocking with lettering as negative space in the gilt. Blind-stamped triple-rule border on back board. Plate IX bound as frontispiece (including tissue guard). Plate V appears not to have been bound into this copy. All tissue guards present. Light cover wear. Gilt on spine and front board complete but rubbed. Tips tender and rubbed through. Pages age toned. Some light foxing to plates. Two chromatic triangles, similar to those of Eugène Delacroix, rendered in pencil, presumably by a previous owner, on verso of front free endpaper. Previous owner's name stamped in blackletter style on frontispiece verso. Else, unmarked. A very scarce and important early work in the literature of color theory. Michel Eugène Chevreul was an industrial chemist and Director of the Gobelins Dye Works. His De la Loi du Contraste simultané des Couleurs (1839) was "one of the most influential treatises on colour written during the nineteenth century The neo-impressionist painters derived their methods of painting from [his] principles, applying separate touches of pure colors to the canvas and allowing the eye of the observer to combine them" (DSB), resulting in the emergence of "scientific" impressionism in the 1880's. The translation by John Spanton was the second in English, preceded by the 1854 translation by E. Martel. This New Edition was the first book in English about color that used color printing.