The Works of John Ruskin. In 39 Volumes. [Library Edition]

Ruskin, John; E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn [Eds.]

Published by George Allen, London, 1903

About this Item

1903-1912. 8vo. Library edition limited to 2,062 of which 2,000 are for sale, complete in thirty-nine volumes. Numerous plates, some chromolithographed, others monochrome sepia or aqua, and black and white in-text illustrations. Bound in half red morocco leather over red cloth, with a red ribbon, spines ribbed and gilt stamped, tops gilt. Several volumes with light wear or rubbing to the leather at the edges or joints, some joints stressed, most of the boards a little bowed, a few with heavier bowing. Vol. XVII stressed at the hinges and weak, resulting in some surface cracking to the leather of the front board. The books clean throughout, each with bookplate to the front paste-down. The edition includes all Ruskin's letters, privately circulated publications and scattered writings, and all published works then known, in print and out. This is an extraordinary presentation of Ruskin's fantastically broad range of work, a corpus which influenced figures as divergent as Proust and Rossetti.

Seller Inventory # 48572

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Works of John Ruskin. In 39 Volumes. [Library Edition]
• Publisher: George Allen, London
• Publication Date: 1903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, Monographs, Catalogs