Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

Simon Garfield

ISBN 10: 0393020053 / ISBN 13: 9780393020052

Published by W W Norton and Co., New York, 2001

About this Item

First printing. Author signed on title page. Gilt lettering on mauve covers in a mauve & black pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 222pp. "Autographed Copy" label on the dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 001998

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
• Publisher: W W Norton and Co., New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393020053
• ISBN 13: 9780393020052
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Offers a study of the color mauve--created in 1856 by eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin, who was working on a treatment for malaria in his home laboratory and accidentally discovered what became the most desired shade in fashion and ultimately led to the development of explosives, perfume, photography, and modern medicine.

About the Author

Simon Garfield is the author of several acclaimed books, including The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.