ELEMENTARY COLOR
Book Details + Condition: Milton Bradley Co. (Springfield, MA). First Edition, 1895. 128 + 4 pages of advertisements. Blue embossed cloth over hard boards, with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Printed frontispiece with mounted color charts, still present. Measures 7.5” x 5.25”. Introduction by Henry Lefaveur. Board game pioneer Milton Bradley sought to educate adults and children about color. As a manufacturer of art supplies and color measurement tools, he was fascinated with finding a precise method for identifying and reproducing colors. Bradley promoted his color wheel as a device that could scientifically match and measure colors using rotating colored disks. He wrote several books on the subject and produced crayons and watercolor paint with the Milton Bradley Company. With ELEMENTARY COLOR, he expounds his theory with the use of the Bradley Color Wheel. Contents include: The Theory of Color; Color Definitions; The Color Wheel; Color Teaching in the Schoolroom; and more. In very good condition: front hinge cracked but binding remains tight; rubbed corners and edges; wear to spine ends; chipping to edges of half-title page; text is clean and unmarked save owner's name on first blank page and school plate on inside front board.
