- Bib ID:
- 874907
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Garfield, Simon
- Description:
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- London : Faber and Faber, 2000
- 222 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0571201970
- Summary:
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"Mauve is the story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him." "Before 1856, the colour in our lives derived from animals, minerals or plants. Clothing, paint, print - their reds and blues and blacks came from insects or molluscs, roots or leaves, and dyeing was painstaking and expensive. One royal procession required ten million dead insects. But in 1856 a chemist called William Perkin discovered a way to mass-produce colour in a factory."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-213) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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