<story><title>A Guide to Color from 1692</title><url>https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-high-resolution-digital-scan.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdeck</author><text>In case anyone wonders what Aristotle&amp;#x27;s color system was, I found this great page that explores historical ways of modeling and thinking about color:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huevaluechroma.com&amp;#x2F;071.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huevaluechroma.com&amp;#x2F;071.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Guide to Color from 1692</title><url>https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-high-resolution-digital-scan.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leoc</author><text>It seems this book&amp;#x27;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:&lt;p&gt;* the &amp;quot;Sobieski Stewarts&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; dodgy &lt;i&gt;Vestiarium Scoticum&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vestiarium_Scoticum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vestiarium_Scoticum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It was from Eilean  Aigas, in 1842, that the brothers at last published their famous manuscript, &lt;i&gt;Vestiarium Scoticum&lt;/i&gt; . 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’.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Hugh Trevor-Roper, &amp;quot;The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* Oliver Byrne&amp;#x27;s colour edition of the first six books of Euclid &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#Byrne&amp;#x27;s_Euclid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#B...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And why not throw in &lt;i&gt;Shadows From the Walls of Death&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Deat...&lt;/a&gt; with its samples of intensely green arsenical wallpaper?</text></comment>