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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Title(s):
Modern painters ... / by John Ruskin ...
Edition:
Complete edition
Published/Created:
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent : George Allen, 1888.
London and Aylesbury : Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Limited
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND1135 R87 1888+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND1135 R87 1888+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3215522
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Ruskin +834mi: Bound in dark blue morocco by Stikeman & Co.
BEIN 1991 +9: One of the large paper edition printed on Whatman's hand-made paper. Bound in dark blue morocco with gold lettering by Zaehnsdorf.
Illustrations engraved by James Charles Armytage, R.P. Cuff, John Henry Le Keux, John Cousen, John Ruskin, George Allen, Thomas Shotter Boys, Thomas Goff Lupton, Charles Algernon Tomkins, William Holl, George Cook, and John Emslie, after John Ruskin, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, John Joseph Laing, and other, non-British artists.
Issued in an edition of 2,000 copies, with an additional 450 large paper copies printed on Whatman's hand-made paper. See: Wise.
Index issued separately under title: Modern painters. General index, bibliography, and notes.
Wise, T.J. Complete bibliography of the writings in prose and verse of John Ruskin, LL.D., 286
Volume 1 contains prefaces to first and second editions; volume 2 its original advertisement and the preface to the "re-arranged edition (1883)"; the others have their own prefaces.
BAC ND1135 R87 1888+ Copy 1: A large paper copy. Bound in green cloth. Correspondence from the publisher to H.E. Cooke (a subscriber), and several prospectuses for Modern painters removed to object file.
BAC ND1135 R87 1888+ Copy 2: A large paper copy. Bound in black morocco by Sotheran & Co.
Subject Terms:
Aesthetics.
Painting.
Form/Genre:
Mezzotints.
Steel engravings.
Contributors:
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851, artist.
Constable, John, 1776–1837, artist.
Laing, John Joseph, 1830–1862, artist.
Allen, George, 1832–1907, engraver.
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803–1874, engraver.
Armytage, James Charles, 1802–1897, engraver.
Cousen, John, 1804–1880, engraver.
Cuff, R. P., active 1860, engraver.
Le Keux, John Henry, 1812–1896, engraver.
Lupton, Thomas Goff, 1791–1873, engraver.
Tomkins, Charles Algernon, 1821–approximately 1903, engraver.
Holl, William, 1807–1871, engraver.
Cook, George, engraver.
Emslie, John, 1813–1875, engraver.
Allen, George, 1832–1907, publisher.
Hazell, Watson & Viney, printer.
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  • v. 1. Of general principles, and of truth
  • v. 2. Of the imagination and theoretic faculties
  • v. 3. Of many things
  • v. 4. Of mountain beauty
  • v. 5. Of leaf beauty ; Of cloud beauty ; Of ideas of relation.

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