La photographie des couleurs
A French technical manual on colour photography by Ernest Coustet, published in Paris by Larousse in 1907, drawn from the Getty Research Institute's holdings. Its pictures are plain line and tone diagrams: two black ornamental border strips, a set of three grey discs marked with letters, and a ray-reflection diagram with lettered points A through E above a hatched surface. A designer might take the bold black-and-cream border motifs as stencil-like repeat patterns and the clean labelled diagram style as a model for explanatory figures.
