300 Years Before Color — Gold Butterfly Design Books The codex provides valuable insight

The codex provides valuable insight into Leonardo da Vinci’s early intellectual development

enriched with Leonardo’s biography and a catalogue of his works

and a six-page polyptych• Strange botanical illustrations

This remarkable facsimile faithfully reproduces the only surviving copy of A

300 Years Before Color — Gold Butterfly Design Books The codex provides valuable insight300 Years Before Color is a remarkable historical color sample book that reveals how early color systems were explored centuries before modern color printing. The book presents hundreds of historical color charts and carefully arranged hand painted color swatches created long before standardized color systems. It was 1960 when Lawrence Herbert was working in a color printing and sales company mainly focused on cosmetics. This businessman and visionary