Color. How To Use It.

Chicago: American Colortype Co., 1940. Book. Folio, color decorated cloth. Pp. [61], full page color illus. Text preceded by color chart with mechanical metal calipers mounted on heavy card stock bi-fold, with explanatory leaf, "How to Use the Calipers." Loosely laid in, carbon copy typescript "Balance - The Key to Color Harmony," 25 pp., one side only. Covers soiled and moderately worn, calipers partly rusted but functional; very good. Preliminary sales dummy for an elaborately produced guide to color harmony, with the mechanical calipers used to determine color associations. The partial text consists of a sample chapter, followed by blank pages. Illustrated with numerous full-page illustrations of color-coordinated interiors.