Thank you. That confirms what I suspected although I was no aware of the
uniform format.
Linda
At 08:21 AM 9/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I think you identified what are a set of small books published by Van
>Nostrand Reinhold (at least three of them) in 1969. They do not have a
>series name, but are the same 8"x8" format. They are:
>Birren, Faber, Principles of color
>Itten, Johannes, The elements of color
>Munsell, Albert, A grammar of color
>Ostwald, Wilhelm, The color primer.
>
>Faber Birren edited and wrote introductions to the three that he did not
>write.
>
>
>
>Anne O. Morris
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>A student came in looking for the books her painting professor had
>recommended: a series or set of four books about color theory. Three of the
>authors of individual volumes were Birren, Itten, and Munsell. I couldn't
>identify any such set or series on the spot. Later I read through Mary
>Buckley, Color Theory: A Guide to Information Sources and found no sets or
>series listed there either. I did notice that Van Nostrand Reinhold and/or
>Reinhold publishers had published books by these authors. Am I missing
>something, or are these publications the elusive "series"?
>
>Linda Zieper
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