Nature's Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World

Patrick Baty, Abraham Werner, London, 2021, 1000 illustrations, full color, 288pp, cloth $40. First published in 1814, now 200 years later it has been republished, with all the brilliance of contemporary printing, and with new illustrations of the plants, animals and minerals. A taxonomy of color in nature, from wing to stem to petal, from tip to toe.