Students' text-book of color, or, Modern chromatics : with applications to art and industry
Ogden Rood's 1881 textbook on modern chromatics, published by D. Appleton in New York for art students, designers, and industrial colorists studying the physics and perception of color. The plates are stark black-and-white diagrams: spinning discs ruled with fine lines, white bars on dense stippled grounds, gradient hatching, and labeled spectrum wedges, usable as high-contrast optical patterns and ruled tonal fields.
