Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Author(s): Simon Garfield
An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.
General Information
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- : Faber and Faber
- : Faber and Faber
- : 0.19
- : 01 September 2001
- : 198mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Simon Garfield
- : New edition
- : 240
- : 8pp colour illustrations