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RUSKIN, John works in vol. Orpington, London, G. Allen, 19th c Sm. and lge 8vo. Uniform binding: mod. blue leather, blindst. triple ruled grid on covers, floral ornaments in corners, gilt titled spines with 5 raised borders (spines sl. faded), a.e.g. Works by or on the hugely influential, leading English art critic of the Victorian era, John Ruskin (1819-1900). He was an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist and wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms varied from penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. Unto this last. Four essays on the first principles of political economy. - The seven lamps of architecture. - Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving. With appendix. - Mornings in Florence. Being simple studies of Christian art for English travellers. - Frondes agrestes. Readings in "Modern painters". - Val d'Arno. Ten lectures on the Tuscan art directly antecendent to the Florentine year of victories. - Love's meinie. Lectures on Greek and English birds. Vol. 1 only. - Deucalion. Collected studies of the lapse of waves, and life of stones. Vol. 1 only. - The laws of Fesole. A familiar treatise on the elementary principles and practice of drawing and painting [...]. Vol. 1 only. - Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain. Vol. 1-- Modern painters. Vol. 1-6 (incl. index volume). - Proserpine. Studies of wayside flowers [...]. Vol. 1-- On the old road. A collection of miscellaneous essays, pamphlets [...]. 3 vol. - Works of John Ruskin [...]. Volume V. London, Smith, Elder & Co, Prov. Bookseller's ticket (in several vol.)