Books on Colour Since 1500: A History and Bibliography of Colour Literature

BOOKS ON COLOUR SINCE 1500 offers an essential reference source for everyone interested in the fascinating and multifarious history of colour. Following a comprehensive survey of five centuries of colour literature, 2,350 authors and editors are listed in a simple A-Z directory, together with book titles, dates of first editions and translations for all non-English titles. Chronological and alphabetical indexes supplement a bibliography of over 2,650 publications categorised under 26 general headings: Architecture, Chemistry, Classification, Colorants, Computing & Television, Decoration, Design, Dress & Cosmetics, Dyeing, Flora & Fauna, Food, Glass, History, Lighting, Metrology, Music, Optics, Painting, Perception, Philosophy, Photography & Cinema, Printing, Psychology, Terminology, Therapy and Vision.