Christian Friedrich PRANGE

Farbenlexicon, Worinn die möglichsten Farben der Natur nicht nur nach ihren Eigenschaften, Benennungen, Verhältnissen und Zusammensetzungen...  Two volumes, one being text the other the plate volume.  Text:  xxxii, 572 pp.  Illustrated with hand-coloured title vignette and one hand-coloured in-text vignette, engraved black-&-white headpiece, plus a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, (lacking the engraved fold-out landscape).  4to., 240 x 190 mm, bound in contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered with modern cloth, new endpapers.  Plate volume:  Illustrated with 48 engraved plates, each with 96 hand coloured samples for a total of 4608 individual colour samples.  4to., 235 x 195 mm, bound in contemporary half calf over matching boards, spine heavily gilt.  Halle: Johann Christian Hendel, 1782.  First and Only Edition, a true rarity in the field of colour theory.  The dazzling atlas volume presents 4608 hand tinted samples offering one of the most complete visual and physical record