The Ostwald Colour Album: A Complete Collection of Colour Standards for Use in Colour Specification and the Study of Colour Harmony

Undated c1933 early or first edition. Slim 8vo, pp14 pages on stiff card fold outs with the 704 Mounted colour samples on 12 plates in pairs showing grids of Colour Standards in 6 cloth-backed sections with cloth hinges in a slipcase. Green cloth covered slipcase with gilt titles and device to front board and titles to spine in good+ condition with some rubbing and fraying to edges. Inside original glassine guards mostly missing with plates in very good clean condition with a little colour transfer to plates No.7, 11 and 12. A nice copy in which Dr Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald (1853-1932) Includes rules for forming harmonious colour combinations taken from his 1925 pamphlet "Farbnormen und Farbharmonien" a work that influenced Wassily Kandinsky, WaltherGropius, Joost Schmidt and Paul Klee as well as other members of the Bauhaus group. Scarce.