30V John Ruskin THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN c1940 Limited Edition Complete Set Decoratively Bound Gilt Uniform Binding Illustrated Seven Lamps Modern Painters Poetry Literature Architecture Myth Botany Florence St Marks Miscellanies Ariadne Aratra Loves Meinie Our Fathers Hortus Inclusus
Title: The Complete Works of John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin - John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy.

He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960's with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognized as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft.
In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain", published under the title "Fors Clavigera" (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild of St George, an organization that endures today.
Publisher: Society of English and French Literature
City: New York
Year: c1940
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 30 Full Set: Yes
Width: 5.75" Height: 8.5"
Book Details: This decoratively bound complete thirty-volume set is uniformly bound in marbled paper and brown leather with gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine, with top-edge gilt and deckled edges. Marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispieces, and full-page illustrated plates enhance each volume. This limited edition set is numbered 331 of 1000. Some titles included in this collection are:

Poetry of Architecture
Seven Lamps
Modern Painters
Stones of Venice
Giotto, Lectures, Harbor, Joy Forever
Drawing, Perspective, Two Paths, Unto This Last
Munera, Sesame, Ethics of the Dust
Eagle’s Nest, Ariadne, Love’s Meinie
Lectures on Art and Landscape, Aratra
Val D’Arno, Proserpina
Fors Clavigera
Art and Pleasures of England, Deucalion
Mornings in Florence, St. Marks, Laws of Fesole
Arrows of the Chase
Our Fathers, Storm Cloud, Hortus Inclusus
Praeterita
Letters, Poems
On the Old Road
Miscellanies

Condition / Notes: These books show beautifully with only light age/wear indications to the boards and spines. The bindings are all solid. The pages are clean and there are no inscriptions or internal writings. Volume 3 is partially disbound and displays some soiling to the interior.

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