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  [Illustration: A BALANCED COLOR SPHERE
  PASTEL SKETCH]




  A COLOR NOTATION

  _By_

  A. H. MUNSELL

A MEASURED COLOR SYSTEM, BASED ON THE THREE QUALITIES

  _Hue, Value, and Chroma_

  with

  Illustrative Models, Charts, and
  a Course of Study Arranged for Teachers

  _2nd Edition
  Revised &
  Enlarged_

  GEO. H. ELLIS CO.
  BOSTON
  1907




  COPYRIGHT, 1905
  by
  A. H. MUNSELL

  _All rights reserved_

  ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL




AUTHOR'S PREFACE.


At various times during the past ten years, the gist of these pages has
been given in the form of lectures to students of the Normal Art School,
the Art Teachers' Association, and the Twentieth Century Club. In
October of last year it was presented before the Society of Arts of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the suggestion of Professor
Charles R. Cross.

Grateful acknowledgment is due to many whose helpful criticism has aided
in its development, notably