Shikimei sokan
WADA, Sanzo. Shikimei sokan. 2 volumes. 182, 8 pp., illustrated with 57 accordion folded plates with 171 mounted colour samples. 8vo, 190 x 105 mm., bound in original wrappers in publisher's shitzu case and cardboard folder. Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1935.
This is the second revised and enlarged edition is Wada's first serious attempt at colour classification, first published in 1931. This new edition contains 12 additional pages of text and 11 extra plates. Wada, who lived from 1883 to 1967 is primarily known to the general public for his early paintings, and for winning an Academy Award in 1955 for the costume design in the film Gate of Hell. However, it is really for his pioneering studies in colour theory that Wada is perhaps best remembered. In 1927 he founded the Japan Standard Color Association, and its successor, the Japan Color Research Institute is still in operation today.
An unusually fine copy.
While not as rare as his fabulous Colour Dictionary, it is still uncommon, with OCLC listing for the first edition being 2 copies in Japan and Copies at Yale, Princeton, University of Washington, and for this edition only NYU, Harvard, Stanford, plus one copy in Japan and one in Taiwan.
Item nr. 167070
Price:
$2,750.00