10 Volume set of John Ruskin
Half bound brown leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Five raised bands on the spines, with writing in gilt that is all eligible. Published by United States Book Company, New York, undated. Volumes are 8 inches high and 5 wides. All with tight bindings and overall in very good condition. Some minor bumping to corners and shelf wear along some bottom edges. One volume has discloration on the bottom (see photo) and two volumes have some wrinkled pages (see example in photos). Some color illustrations as well as black and white illustrations.
The ten volumes contain the following:
Stones of Venice, Part 1
Vol I, The Foundations
Vol II, the Sea Stories
Stones of Venice, Part 2
Vol III, the Fall
The Poetry of Architecture
Poems
Giotto and His Works in Padua
Modern Painters, Part 1
Vol I, Of General Principles and of Truth
Modern Painters, Part 2
Vol II, Of Truth and Theoretic Faculties
Vol III, Of Many Things
Modern Painters, Part 3
Vol IV, Mountain Beauty
Vol V, Of Leaf Beauty, Of Cloud Beauty, Of Ideas of Relation
The Laws of Fesole, also a Joy Forever, Our Fathers Have Told Us, and Inaugural Address
Fors Clavigera: Letters tp the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Part 1 and Part II (4 volumes combined)
Hortus Inclusus, also In Montibus Sanctis - Coeli Enarrant, Notes on Various Pictures
Seven Lamps of Architecture, also Lecturres on Architecture and Painting, the Study of Architecture, Sesames and Lilies - Unto this Last, the Queen of the Air, and the Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
Crown of Wild Olive, also Munera Pulveris, Pre-Raphaelitism - Aratra Pentelici, The Ethics of the Dust, Fiction, Fair and Foul, and The Elements of Drawing
Proserpina, also Ariadne Florentina, The Opening of the Crystal Palace, St. Mark's Rest, Lectures on Art, and the Elements of Perspective
The Two Paths - Love's Meinie, also Val D'Arno, The Pleasures of England, Mornings in Florence - Time and Tide, The Art of England, and Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds
Deucalion, also The King of the Golden River, The Eagle's Nest, and Arrows of the Chace
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