Werner's nomenclature of colours : with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy. Annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms /
Syme, Patrick,1774-1845.
Werner, Abraham Gottlob,1749-1817.
Edinburgh : Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for William Blackwood, South-Bridge-Street, Edinburgh; and John Murray, Albermarle-Street, and Robert Baldwin, Paternoster-Row, London,
1814.
Syme's work was based on Werner's earlier system, based on actual minerals, extending it from 79 hues to 108.
With 108 hand-painted colour samples mounted on 13 plates.
With half title.
Colors.