"This book was designed and set in digital Monotype Fournier by Barbara Hodgson. Franc̦oise Giovannangeli edited it. It was printed letterpress from polymer plates by David Clifford at Black Stone Press, Vancouver, on Arches Cover and BFK Rives. The watercolours used in the charts are from Winsor & Newton, Daler-Rowney, Holbein and Da Vinci. The edition is thirty numbered and five A.P. copies, each signed by the two authors. Each copy has been bound by Claudia Cohen in her Seattle studio. All hand colouring and other embellishments have been done by the authors. The six vials in each case contain fine artists' pigments from Kroma, Vancouver"--Colophon.

Black leather diaper-patterned embossed binding embellished with multi-colored geometric shapes on front and back boards. Spine is red leather with title embossed in gold. Issued in a clam-shell box with leather label.

"The first eight copies contain an original trial piece for a page that did not make it into the final book."--Letterpress guard page following colophon and preceeding leaf with illustration, "after Charles Blaine Grammaire des arts du dessin, 1870."

Color charts and wheels included are: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), The colours of Purgatory

Mediæval uroscopy charts, The colours of urine and their meanings

Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), The colour sphere

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), Colour spiral

George Field (1777-1854), Definitive or fundamental scale of colour

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Nomenclature of The Human Comedy

Oliver Byrne (active 1830s to 1870s), A Euclidean colour wheel

Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), Simple and contrast colours

Alphonse Bertillon (1854-1914), Notation of the color of the eyes

Alfred G. Mayer (1868-1922), Color mimicry

A silk merchant's colour thread card

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), Vowels, 1871

Robert Ridgway (1850-1929), Orange-green-violet

Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), Chromatic and achromatic standards

The colour of currency

After Charles Blane, Grammaire des arts du dessin 1870.

Color > Charts, diagrams, etc.

Color > Terminology > History.

Artists' books > Canada.

Heavenly Monkey (Firm)

Faber Birren Collection (Yale University)