Mauve. How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World

Garfield, Simon

ISBN 10: 0571201970 / ISBN 13: 9780571201976

Verlag: Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 2000

Beschreibung

First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£9.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unopened, unread. 222pp, illustrated. An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004021

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mauve. How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World
• Verlag: Faber and Faber Ltd, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0571201970
• ISBN-13: 9780571201976
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket by Pentagram
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.