Garfield Simon:
Mauve
How One Man Invented A Colour That Changed The World
Faber And Faber (United Kingdom), 2001
Paperback, 240 pages
Size: 198x126 mm
ISBN: 9780571209170
ISBN-10: 0571209173
List price: £8.99
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Mauve
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.

