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WADA, SANZO / [WADA, SANZO] and NIHON SHIKISAI KENKYUJO

Shin shikimeicho [New color book]

WADA, SANZO and NIHON SHIKISAI KENKYUJO. Shin shikimeicho [New color book]. Oblong 12mo, 60 × 94 mm. Original decorative boards with metal fasteners. 32 pp. of text followed by 200 strips of hand-painted color samples divided into two horizontal rows, printed to rectos with the names in Japanese and English. Housed in the original printed card slipcase. Japan Color Research Society, 1954.

First and only edition of this exquisite little colour book published by the Japan Color Research Institute under the leadership of the pioneering colour theorist Wada Sanzo. Wada was a painter and also a textile and costume designer. In 1927, he founded the first academic institute for color research in Japan, the Japan Standard Color Association, reorganized into the Japan Color Research Institute in 1945, which continues to exist today. In 1933 he published a major dictionary of color combinations in six volumes which is considered a classic. Of the greatest rarity with OCLC locating only one copy, at the National Diet Library in Japan. Insignificant staining at the front and rear, but basically a fine copy.

Item nr. 173372
Price: $2,500.00