Format:
1 Online-Ressource (129 p., xvii leaves of plates)
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Series Statement:
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Content:
pt. 1. Nomenclature of colors: Preface. Principles of color and general remarks. Colors required by the zoölogical or botanical artist. Comparative vocabulary of colors. Bibliography -- Pt. 2. Ornithologists' compendium: Glossary of technical terms used in descriptive ornithology. Table for converting millimetres into English inches and decimals. Table for converting English inches and decimals into millimetres.
Note:
Color charts executed in stencilled watercolor, using pigments specified in the descriptions. Cf. Ridgway's succeeding work, Color standards and nomenclature (1912), p. 13: "[O]wing the method of reproducing the originals (hand stenciling)--there is considerable variation in different copies of the book, one or more reprints, necessitating new mixtures of pigments, adding to this lack of uniformity."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [57]-58)
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Most plates with description on facing versos of guardsheets
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Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library
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Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Cambridge [Mass.] : University Press, J. Wilson and Son
Language:
English
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