Author: RUSKIN, JOHN (1819-1900)
Title: Modern painters
Description: London : George Allen & Sons 1908. 5th Edition in this form. Very good copies bound in contemporary polished aniline calf. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine. with compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Kingswood School coat-of-arms gilt-stamped to front panels. with gilt-tooled double-lined borders. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Prize label tipped in to prelims. of vol. 1. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; Physical description: 6 v. : illus.fronts.plates; 16 cm. Vols. 1-5 are all 5th edition in small form. published 1908. Volume 6 (index) is a 3rd edition in small form. published 1903. Fronts. And plates to vol. 3. 4 & 5. Subjects: Painters - Painting - England - 19th century. Aesthetics - 19th century - England. Contents: v.1. Of general principles. and Of truth --v.2. Of the imaginaitve and theoretic faculities --v.3. Of many things --v.4. Of mountain beauty --v.5. Of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation. --v.6. General index. bibliography and notes. by John Ruskin [complete in 6 volumes. including index].Weight in Kg appr.:

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