The colour-sense [microform] : its origin and development : an essay in comparative psychology
Grant Allen's 1892 essay on the origin and development of colour sense, a work of comparative psychology published in London by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and held as a microform copy. The pictures are not illustrations but close black-and-white scans of the book's page edges, with dark gutters and bright blank fore-edges stacked in vertical bands. A designer might take from them an abstract striped texture of light and shadow, useful as a background or a rhythmic pattern.
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