CRISP, Quentin. Colour in Display. London: Blandford Press. 1938.
8vo. Original green cloth lettered in black to front cover and spine, with the original price-clipped printed dust jacket in black and orange; pp. 131, [1], with four colour illustration and one folded colour chart as well as several figures in the text; some spotting to text block, some pencil marking to margine, endpapers and jacket, jacket with a few nicks to edges; bookplate of Cecil. C. W. Landale to front pastedown; very good.
First edition of Quentin Crisp’s first published book.
Colour in Display is a "lucid" treatise on the use of pictorial art in backgrounds, and colour gradation in displaying goods. Crisp argues that the mistake of the window designer is to confuse “commercial art” and “fine art” with the art of display. Crisp gives his reader much practical and witty advice such as “the desire to display something of everything seems to have resulted in the display of nothing”.
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