BURRIS-MEYER, ELIZABETH; BURRIS-MEYER, ELIZABETH - Historical Color Guide Primitive to Modern Times with Thirty Plates in Color

William Helburn, Inc, (1938), 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Now in a removable archival protective mylar clear cover. Original red cloth with bottom corner near spine mottling, and several small areas of lighter color on front and back. Spine slightly loosening. Complete bright contents with color examples/plates pasted in reflecting the history of decoration and color. Tissue guards with each color guide, some aging of tissue guards. The 30 plates of actual samples are not part of the pagination. "The object of the book is to present each color scheme in such proportion and range of color that the reader will have a feeling for, and appreciation of, the period." Valuable to architects, decorators, display designers, advertisers, dress designers and merchants as it definitively mirrors the colors to the times in which they occur. As valuable a book as ‘Methuen Handbook of Colour'. ; Color ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 33 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .