A colourful book (1692)

[dang]

This is delightful. We changed the url from http://gizmodo.com/who-painted-this-300-year-old-guidebook-t.... Submitters: please read what you post and, if there's a more original source, post that instead. HN prefers original sources.

Remarkably, the book itself is viewable at http://www.e-corpus.org/notices/102464/gallery/. Since the blog post is necessary to understand what this is, we won't replace the url any further.

[pbhjpbhj]

It would be great if this could be formalised somehow. Like giving "via" and "source document" footnotes to the story [or perhaps an automated top comment that is visually distinguished as editorial] - if you'd not added this note I'd have missed out as I don't have access to tumblr. But it's more that such metadata gives the reader much more control of how they digest the information.

Gizmodo and Colossal both give "via" info.

[11001]

I'm so glad they put this guy in charge of the content!

[nathancahill]

"Colorful" pages start at page 85 of the book.

[Kristories]

Thank you @dang :)

[skuunk1]

322 year old style guide. Sweet!

[NAFV_P]

The Dulux range, circa 1692.