Paint & Colour Mixing: a practical handbook

JENNINGS, Arthur Seymour. Paint & Colour Mixing: a Practical Handbook for Painters, Decorators, Paint Manufacturers, Artists, and all who have to mix Colours. [4], ix, 190 pp., including 15 pages of advertisements, one advertisement printed in colour, and advertisements on paste-down endpapers, illustrated with 17 plates with 347 tipped-in colour samples and a loose colour chart. 8vo, 212 x 130 mm., bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1910. Fourth edition, revised and much enlarged, of a work first published in 1902 and reprinted until 1926. The text gives recipes of mixtures, lists of manufacturers, and types of pigments, illustrated with hundreds of actual coloured samples. Jennings was the author of myriad books on colour and a fellow of various decorating societies. Some wear to binding else very good, with the samples intact. Yale Library Gazette, Vol. 49, No. 1, p.39.