A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook by P. Syme with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux.

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Source Material

Werner’s nomenclature of colours: with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy : annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms by Patrick Syme, 1821, available from the Internet Archive. Original book not in copyright.