Roy Osborne
’Books on Colour 1495-2025’ offers a quick and easy reference to 3,130 authors and editors and 3,495 titles published by them. Following a concise historical survey of colour literature, authors are listed in an A-Z directory, together with titles, dates and places of publication and brief biographical details. English translations are given for other-language titles. Chronological indexes of authors precede the bibliographical listing and alphabetical indexes follow it. Publications are categorised under 27 headings: Architecture, Chemistry, Classification, Colorants, Computing & Television, Decoration, Design, Dress & Cosmetics, Dyeing, Flora & Fauna, Food, Glass, History, Lighting, Metrology, Music, Optics, Painting, Perception, Philosophy, Photography & Cinema, Printing, Psychology, Symbolism, Terminology, Therapy, and Vision.
