Wada Sanzo. - [Shikimei Sokan].Tokyo, Shunjusha 1931 (Showa 6). 20x12cm publisher's cloth case (back a little faded) with title label with 160 mounted colour samples on 56 accordian folding card leaves; and wrappered book; 178pp and some tables (two folding). Usual browning and offsetting of the card mounts.Colour samples named in Japanese, English and occasionally French or German; two of the tables are multi language lists of colour names. The top edge of the colour cards are gilded and the apparently plain paper lining of the case has a pattern of transparent glazed shapes printed on it. ¶ First edition of Wada's first serious attempt at colour nomenclature. Wada, though at the top of the art ladder in Japan, insisted on pursuing new directions and founded the Japan Standard Color Association, now the Japan Color Research Institute, in 1927. In these early years science, art and aesthetics went hand in hand. AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.25 US$ 294.28 | £UK 228.75 | JP¥ 45352] Book number 11212is offered by:
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