Assorted Works of John Ruskin in Uniform Full Blue Calf, bound by W. J. Mansell, Including:
- Sesame and Lilies. Three Lectures. Thirteenth Complete Edition. London: George Allen, 1898.
- Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. Twelfth Edition. London: George Allen, 1898.
- Modern Painters of General Principles, and of Truth. Second Edition in Small Form. Three Volumes. London: George Allen, 1898.
- Fors Clavier Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. New Edition. Four Volumes. London: George Allen, 1896.
- The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm. Fourteenth Thousand. London: George Allen, 1899.
- The Ethics of the Dust. Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization. Tenth Edition. London: George Allen, 1898.
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Provenance:
Ink inscriptions dedicated to "Edward Bell" as well as his ownership inscriptions, dated 1898 and 1900.
Gilt crests to the front boards of Sesames and Lilies & Unto This Last, reading "Marlborough College Founded A.D. 1843".
Gilt crests reading "Magn Aul. Univ. Oxon Coll." to front boards of Modern Painters volumes one and two.
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Size: varying, most volumes being of the same or very similar in size, roughly octavo.
Condition:
[half title, t.p., v-xxxvi, 1ff., 228pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-xxi, 199pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-lxxii, 456pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-xxviii, 285pp.]; [half title, frontis, t.p., v-xvi, 365pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-viii, 524pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-vi, 517pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-vi, 480pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-vi, 530pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-x, 1ff., 270pp.]; [half title, t.p., v-xv, 2ff., 269pp.]
Near contemporary full calf bindings with gilt titles between raised bands, with other compartments on the spines with floral blindstamped motifs, and blindstamped borders and floral motifs to corners of boards. Gilt crests to the front boards of Sesames and Lilies & Unto This Last and a different gilt crest to the front boards of Modern Painters volumes one and two. Spines lightly rubbed, more so to extremities. All boards securely attached with light rubbing along joints. Some spines sunned, but present nicely on the shelf. Boards lightly rubbed and scuffed. Small damp stain to very few boards. Minor shelf lean, all volumes remaining upright on the shelf apart from Unto This Last which doesn't stand vertically, but does when placed with the set. All page edges gilt. Very small damp stain to the top of the first few and the last few leaves of The Queen of the Air and of The Ethics of the Dust. Ink inscriptions to front blanks in all volumes, the inscriptions vary in text. Text blocks extremely clean with occasional foxing.
