Lectures on Art. Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. By John Ruskin, LL.D. New Edition, Revised by the Author. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1887.
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A lovely fine full blue calf with a fore-edge painting depicting a man standing on some rocks facing to the side, with a river behind him. He is holding a hat in his left hand, and in the other he has a cane.
The fore-edge painting appears to be of John Ruskin himself after the famous oil on canvas by Sir John Everett Millais.
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Size: 121 x 183 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[half title, t.p., iii-viii, 250pp.]
Full blue calf binding with gilt tooled title and author in compartments to spine between raised bands, other compartments with blindstamping, and with a fore-edge painting. Light rubbing to the spine, more so to extremities. Both boards securely attached with very minor wear to joints and hinges. Spine somewhat sunned with the sunning partially extending to the boards. Boards with very minor superficial scratches. Shelf and edge wear. All page edges gilt with the fore-edge painting appearing when the leaves are spread. No attached bookplates. Ink ownership inscription to front blank with a pencil inscription along the edge. First few leaves including blanks somewhat foxed. Remainder of the text block very clean with very light toning and occasional foxing.
