A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists
By: by Robert Ridgway
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co.
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 129
Copyright date: 1885
Subjects: Color; Terminology; Colors; Color in nature; Ornithology; Watercolor painting; Technique
Notes: Most plates with description on facing versos of guardsheets.

Color charts executed in stencilled watercolor, using pigments specified in the descriptions. Cf. Ridgway's succeeding work, Color standards and nomenclature (1912), p. 13: "[O]wing the method of reproducing the originals (hand stenciling)--there is considerable variation in different copies of the book, one or more reprints, necessitating new mixtures of pigments, adding to this lack of uniformity."

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [57]-58).
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Nomenclature of colors: Preface. Principles of color and general remarks. Colors required by the zoölogical or botanical artist. Comparative vocabulary of colors. Bibliography; title: Pt. 2. Ornithologists' compendium: Glossary of technical terms used in descriptive ornithology. Table for converting millimetres into English inches and decimals. Table for converting English inches and decimals into millimetres.