Practical Hints on Color in Painting (download) by John Burnet, 1880

A Grammar of Coloring (download) by Ellis A. Davidson This book deals with basic color theory (very basic) and continues with fairly detailed descriptions of specific pigments, mediums, techniques and styles.

Chromatography: A Treatise of Colors and Pigments (download) by George Field A relic from a time when the scientific method was just beginning to be applied broadly to a number of new fields of study. Admittedly obsolete as a color theory teaching system, Field’s work is nonetheless noteworthy for dealing with color specifically as it [...]

Munsell Color System at www.applepainter.com (external link) An online annotated digest of the Munsell system. The authors of the site state, “This book was published in 1921. It is entitled – The Munsell Color System, A Practical Description with Suggestions for its Use. The concepts of Hue, Value and Chroma are explained with diagrams making [...]

A Color Notation (download) by A. H. Munsell Another early Munsell color theory publication. This edition includes a peculiar illustration of what came to be known as the “color solid”, a three-dimensional object representing all paintable colors. The version shown here is drawn as a sphere, where later versions would take into account the relatively [...]

Color Balance Illustrated: An Introduction to the Munsell System by A. H. Munsell An early publication of the color system still most in use today, not only by artists, but in virtually every industry requiring a way to mathematically describe and mix color. While any electronic text of Munsell will be incomplete without the printed [...]