[Hand-Colored] Goethe's theory of colours; translated from the German : with notes by Charles Lock Eastlake, R.A., F.R.S. [Zur Farbenlehre]
London: John Murray, 1840. Decorative Cloth. First Edition in English of the German poet's important treatise on the theory of colors and their perception by humans. Demy 8vo (221 x 139mm): xlviii,423,[1]pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and three further plates, two of which also hand-colored. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine lettered..... more