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001 $ 23/560
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20230622142125.6
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Harding, Wyndham
245 1 0 $a An alphabet of colour : reduced from the works of Field, Hay, Chevreuil, and others
260 # # $a [Place of publication not identified] $b [publisher not identified] $c [1853]
300 # # $a 29 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 29 cm.
500 # # $a The publication carries no date of publication, but according to Wyndham Harding’s obituary in the proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, `his short, but highly original and ingenious ‘Alphabet of Colour’ was printed for private circulation, in 1853.'
500 # # $a The printer is named at the foot of page 29: `C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.'
500 # # $a Photocopy
505 0 # $a Compiler’s preface -- Alphabet of colour, thus divided: - Introductory remarks -- Of composite colours -- Constitution of a table of primary, secondary, and tertiary colours with coloured diagrams -- A table of hues -- Hues of the primary colours -- Hues of the secondary colours (with coloured diagrams) -- On contrast in colours -- Scale of chromatic equivalents, and its use with diagram -- Appendix. Extracts from authors -- Cowley on light -- Rebelais -- J.D. Harding, extracts from work entitled “Principles and Practice of Art” -- George Field’s “Chromatics” -- From Report of Commissioners of 1851 / [by Richard Redgrave RA]
600 1 4 $a Field, George
600 1 4 $a Hay, David Ramsay
600 1 4 $a Chevreul, Michel Eugène
700 1 # $a Redgrave, Richard $e contributor
700 1 # $a Harding, James Duffield $e contributor
710 2 # $a C. Whittingham and Company $e printer