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VANDERPOEL, EMILY NOYES. COLOR PROBLEMS. A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color.
New York: Longmans, Green, 1902 Square 8vo, xvi, 137pp, 117 celluloid plates (115 in color), translucent color cells laid in pocket on back paste-down. Orig. green cloth stamped in gilt. Wear to boards, hinges starting, otherwise very good, with armorial bookplate of the Loganian Library. ¶ First edition of the 'first known use of celluloid in books on color' (Herbert). Professor Herbert notes further that 'Vanderpoel, whose vulgarization of color theory is up-to-date (and even includes recent Japanese publications), has a striking variety of color lithographs, varying from color-mixing discs, to quadratures that indicate proportional color schemes, and from painterly color notations to 'stained' stripes that remind us now of Morris Louis' (Herbert p.15). Indergand 617.3. Cf. Birren Collection 629.
Offered for US$ 100.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 5600.