[HN Gopher] A Guide to Color from 1692
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       A Guide to Color from 1692
        
       Author : throw0101a
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2021-04-09 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | If curious, there was at least one previous submission about
       | this:
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       |  _A colourful book (1692)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702850 - May 2014 (8
       | comments)
        
       | gengelbro wrote:
       | Recently read: "Secret Lives Of Colour" by Kassia St Clair which
       | was very interesting from a historical perspective. I especially
       | enjoyed the descriptions of the old chemical engineering (vats of
       | vinegar, urine, lead, etc).
        
       | leoc wrote:
       | It seems this book's colours were hand-painted, but I might as
       | well mention two famous mid-C19 examples of colour printing, when
       | (IIRC; I am not an expert) high-quality colour printing was still
       | very expensive and rare:
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       | * the "Sobieski Stewarts'" dodgy _Vestiarium Scoticum_ :
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiarium_Scoticum
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       | > It was from Eilean Aigas, in 1842, that the brothers at last
       | published their famous manuscript, _Vestiarium Scoticum_ . It
       | appeared in a sumptuous edition limited to fifty copies. The
       | series of coloured illustrations of tartans was the first ever to
       | be published and was a triumph over technical difficulties. These
       | illustrations were executed by a new process of 'machine
       | printing' and, in the words of a scholar writing fifty years
       | later, 'for beauty of execution and exactness of detail have not
       | been excelled by any method of colour-printing subsequently
       | invented'.
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       | > Hugh Trevor-Roper, "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland
       | Tradition of Scotland"
       | 
       | * Oliver Byrne's colour edition of the first six books of Euclid
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#B...
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       | And why not throw in _Shadows From the Walls of Death_
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Deat...
       | with its samples of intensely green arsenical wallpaper?
        
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