The Works of John Ruskin

Description: Seven Volumes by John Ruskin, all published by John Wiley & Son (NY). Titles & book details are as follows: -The Seven Lamps of Architecture. With Illustrations, Drawn & Etched by the Author. 1868. Has a Frontispiece with tissue, Table of Contents, List of Plates. The pages from the front end papers through the List of Plates are completely detached from the book but are present, and there are other places in the book where the pages are loose and/or semi-detached/detached as well. -“Unto This Last” Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. 1869. Has a Table of Contents. Also contains: The Ethics of Dust. Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation; Notes. -Pre-Raphaelitism. 1869. Book also contains: Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds; The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers, a Legend of Stiria; The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures, Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857; Addenda; An Inquiry into Some of the Conditions at Present Affecting “The Study of Architecture” in Our Schools. Two front end papers are halfway detached from the spine. -Sesame and Lilies. 1869. Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864. 1. Of Kings’ Treasuries; 2. Of Queens’ Gardens. Book also contains: Time and Tide, By Weare and Tyne. Twenty-Five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work. -Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford. Volumes I, II, & III. 1875. Volume III has a Frontispiece with tissue, and illustrations. Volumes I & III have a Table of Contents. Each book has gilt lettering and design on spine, and each measures about 5 ¼” x 8.” All hardcovers have wear/tear/bumping, mainly around spines, edges, and corners, along with light staining. Has uncut pages in some of the volumes. All pages have corner creases, some tears, light tanning from age, soil spots, some separation between pages.Note that I’ve described the books as best as I can. Look closely at all photos for condition and details as they are also part of the description. Email with any questions.

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