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Nine Volumes of The Essays and Belles Lettres of John Ruskin, Everyman's Library. Comprising The Elements of Drawing and Perpective, Pre-Raphaelitism and Lectures on Architecture & Painting, The Stones of Venice (2 vol., lacking vol.3), and Modern Painters (5 vol.)
Ruskin, John and Rhys, Ernest (Ed.) · London and New York
- Author
- Ruskin, John and Rhys, Ernest (Ed.)
- Date
- c1912
- Place
- London and New York
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons, E.P. Dutton & Co.
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 12mo.(4.25" x 6.875") Nine volumes. Full red flible diced leather with heavy gilt decoration and lettering to upper covers and spines, rounded corners. Minoe edgewear, board edges rubbed, head and foot of spines lightly chipped (see pic). Top edges gilt, printed decorative endpapers. Ornate title pages in the manner of Dard Hunter. Some volumes with illustrations, both Stones volumes with color plates as well.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.8418
Nine Volumes of The Essays and Belles Lettres of John Ruskin, Everyman's Library. Comprising The Elements of Drawing and Perspective, Pre-Raphaelitism and Lectures on Architecture & Painting, The Stones of Venice (2 vol., lacking vol.3), and Modern Painters (5 vol.), c1912. London and New York: J.M. Dent & Sons, E.P. Dutton & Co.
12mo.(4.25" x 6.875") Nine volumes. Full red flible diced leather with heavy gilt decoration and lettering to upper covers and spines, rounded corners. Minoe edgewear, board edges rubbed, head and foot of spines lightly chipped (see pic). Top edges gilt, printed decorative endpapers. Ornate title pages in the manner of Dard Hunter. Some volumes have illustrations, including both Stones volumes, which feature color plates as well.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) was a British writer, art critic, social thinker, and reformer, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
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