[Artist's handbook. Chevreul] The principles of harmony and contrast of colours,

and their applications to the arts: including painting, interior decoration, tapestries, carpets, mosaics, coloured glazing, paper-staining, calico-printing, letterpress printing, map-colouring, dress, landscape and flower gardening, etc. By M.E. Chevreul. Translated from the French by Charles Martel. Third edition. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1860, XLVI,465,(1) p., with 15 plates printed in colour, 4 (large) folding, steel-engraved plates (incl. one movable plate) and 1 folding letterpress table, splendidly bound in contemporary calf with gilt and ribbed back.

Owner's name to title page (dated 1868); occ. foxing; plate XIV bound upside down. Binding with light traces of use. In all a fine copy. The colour-printing technique used here results in beautiful multicolour plates not expected in a book of this age. Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), highly decorated French chemist.