[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [1853]
Physical Description
29 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
General Note
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.'
The printer is named at the foot of page 29: `C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.'
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Contents
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]