Description: Modern Painters in Five Volumes by John Ruskin, Smith, Elder and Co., London, three frontispiece plates, eighty four fine steel-engraved plates and eight wood-engraved plates, in color and black and white, full leather, 10.25 x 7”, 8vo. In good condition. A nicely bound set. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along edges and corners. Spines abraded with red rot present at joints and compartments. Boards abraded with light scratching and scuffing overall to surface. Gilt ruling lightly chipped but remains bright. Gilt at compartments dulled and mostly missing. Front joint at Volume V is cracking slightly. Spine labels somewhat chipped with modest scuffing. Marbled end papers bright and clean. All edges marbled. Bookseller’s ticket from Moyer’s Book Barn, Strasburg, PA adhered to second end pages. Light toning throughout with minor instances of foxing. Free of known ownership or marginalia. Bindings are all intact. Please see photos. Vol. I, Containing Parts I and II. 'Of General Principles and of Truth', lxiii, 423; Vol. II containing Part III, Sections I and II, 'Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties', xvi, 224; Vol. III containing Part IV, 'Of Many Things', xix, 348, with plates as called for; Vol. IV containing Part V, 'Of Mountain Beauty', xii, 411, with plates as called for; Vol. V completing the work and containing Parts VI, 'Of Leaf Beauty', VII 'Of Cloud Beauty', VIII 'Of Ideas of Relation ( Of Invention Formal )' IX' Of Ideas of Relation ( Of Invention Spiritual )', xvi, 384 pp. “Ruskin began this work in 1843 at the tender age of 24 shortly after leaving Oxford, offering it as a defense of J. M. W. Turner, an accomplished landscape artist. The fifth and final volume was published in 1860, and it represented the last of Ruskin s works on art per se; his attention was subsequently turned more toward industrial problems, education, morals and religion. The set contains a vast profusion of magnificent plates from steel and wood engravings and a very fine index to this great work of Ruskin’s” COLA1856BMNM-1023
Price: 450 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2025-01-09T13:30:47.000Z
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher: Smith, Elder and Co.
Topic: Fine Arts
Subject: Art
Original/Facsimile: Original
