Atlas de los Colores. Colour Atlas

1947. VILLALOBOS-DOMINGUEZ, C. and Julio VILLALOBOS. Atlas de los Colores. [Colour Atlas]. With 7,279 illustrations on 38 colour plates. Oblong 4to, 205 x 290 mm., bound in publisher's cloth. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1947. This is one of the most extensive colour atlases. This massive and elaborate work was an attempt to create a complete colour order system to satisfy most or all practical needs. The 7,279 colour samples each have an off-center hole of 4 mm. in diameter to aid in visually comparing them to other colour materials. A scarce book, published in a numbered and stamped-signed edition. A light water stain to the right-hand margin of the preliminary text plates affecting the margin of the first colour plate, otherwise very good.