Mauve. How one man invented a colour that changed the world
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- Author(s) Garfield, Simon
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 224pp; illus
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Informative biography of William Perkins, the pioneer of synthetic chemicals and originator of the colour mauvre - biography, account of the dye production industry ahead and after Perkins's discovery, and social and cultural history of the colour mauvre. In two parts - invention and exploitation