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Thick 8vo, dark blue crushed levant morocco half-bound over boards, gilt ruled, marbled paper sides and endpapers, five raised bands, gilt title on spine with gilt decoration in five compartments, t.e.g. Clipping from early bookseller catalogue pasted on verso of ffep, contents of this volume in pencil on first blank. A compilation of 9 writings by John Ruskin plus two additional related works (by William E. A. Axon and Charles Eliot Norton), consisting of the 7 titles listed above corresponding to the following numbers (1)-(7), plus 4 others (8-11): (1) Manchester (1879), 22 pp., reprinted from vol. V of the Papers of the Manchester Literary Club (1879), original wrappers bound in; (2) Cambridge: University Press, 1879, 34 pp,; (3) from The University Magazine (April 1878), pp. [385]-391, followed by Karl Blind: The Ethic Ideas of the Edda, pp. 392-398; (4,5) Venice (1877), 57 pp., separate title page for each part; (6) London: Printed by Spottiswoode, 1858, 76 pp.; (7) London: Printed for the author by Smith, Elder, 1872, 45 pp. (preceded by title page for Ralph S. Wornum: Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery); (8) Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy: 1875, Third ed., 61 pp., (Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1875) [with:] (9) Notes by Mr. Ruskin on His Drawings by the Late J. M.W. Turner, R. A. Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Galleries, in the Spring of 1878. Also an Appendix Containing a List of the Engraved Works of J.M.W. Turner Exhibited at the Same Time, 111 pp. + 5 pp. of advertisements, including price list for Turner s engraved works, (N.p., [1878]) [with:] (10) Notes by Mr. Ruskin. Part I: On His Drawings by the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Part II: On His Own Handiwork Illustrative of Turner, 146 pp. + 5 pp. of advertisements, including price list for Turner s engraved works (London: Fine Art Society, 1878) [with:] (11) Notes by Mr. Ruskin on Samuel Prout and William Hunt, Illustrated by a Loan Collection of Drawings Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Galleries, 108 pp. (London: Fine Art Society, 1879-80). A Sammelband of writings all by or related to Ruskin, with several pieces rather scarce, in a very attractive binding. The contents are clean and fresh; scattered light rubbing the binding edges. Wise 663, 316, 257, 213, 65, 190(?), 49, 221(?), 227, 233. Seller Inventory # 1483
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