On Colour and the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes: With Remarks on Laying out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens

Published by John Murray, Madrid, 1858

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22.5 x 14 cm. Ocatvo. xvi 408pp. No ads. Errata slip bound in at page 1, tables, index. Complete with 8 stunning color plates. These include 5 chromolithographs with imprint J. G. W. del and 3 hand-colored lithograph plates with imprint West & Co. 62 woodcuts in text. Bound into full 19th century tan leather. Prize binding with gilt blind stamp on cover reading "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" and gift inscription to the prize winner dated 1862 on the first blank page. No other writing, clean pages. 5 raised bands to spine and leather spine label. Covers have been professionally reattached and binding is tight and holidng. Marble endpapers and foredges. Some scuffing to the leather. Nice copy. Wilkinson is often credited as "the father of British Egyptology". A study of color theory with examples from art, gardening, colored glass windows, portraits, columns, and more. OCLC 978209591.

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Title
On Colour and the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes: With Remarks on Laying out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens
Author
Wilkinson, Sir J. Gardner
Publisher
John Murray, Madrid
Publication year
1858
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Full Leather
Edition
First edition.
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