Accession number
PML 133568-70
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Published
Orpington, Kent : George Allen, 1886-1900.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Originally issued in 28 parts of one chapter each, with individual t.p.'s.
Issued in parts of 1 chapter each, with individual t.p.s dated 1885-1889. These were collected into 2 vols. of 12 chapters each, and a third vol. of 4 chapters. Each vol. was furnished with a general t.p., with dates 1886, 1887, and 1900 respectively.
Includes the Dilecta and index (vi, 171 p.) at end of v. 3.
Illustrations include an unsigned steel engraved frontispiece in v. 1 entitled "My Two Aunts"; steel engraved frontispiece in v. 2 by George Allen after Ruskin entitled "The old Dover packet's jib"; mezzotint by George Allen after Ruskin entitled "The Castle of Annecy" and a photogravure after Ruskin by Pellissier and Allen, printed in brown ink, entitled "The Grande Chartreuse", in v. 3.
"Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury"--v. 1, t.p. verso.
Large paper issue, with the plates printed on chine collé.
Includes index.
Advertisements in v. 2-3, following main sequence.
Handwritten notes (6 p.) laid in v. 1.
Issued in parts of 1 chapter each, with individual t.p.s dated 1885-1889. These were collected into 2 vols. of 12 chapters each, and a third vol. of 4 chapters. Each vol. was furnished with a general t.p., with dates 1886, 1887, and 1900 respectively.
Includes the Dilecta and index (vi, 171 p.) at end of v. 3.
Illustrations include an unsigned steel engraved frontispiece in v. 1 entitled "My Two Aunts"; steel engraved frontispiece in v. 2 by George Allen after Ruskin entitled "The old Dover packet's jib"; mezzotint by George Allen after Ruskin entitled "The Castle of Annecy" and a photogravure after Ruskin by Pellissier and Allen, printed in brown ink, entitled "The Grande Chartreuse", in v. 3.
"Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury"--v. 1, t.p. verso.
Large paper issue, with the plates printed on chine collé.
Includes index.
Advertisements in v. 2-3, following main sequence.
Handwritten notes (6 p.) laid in v. 1.
Description
3 v. (xv, 432; xi, 442; viii, 182, vi, 171 p.), [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 31 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 dark blue-green morocco, with t.p.'s from original parts of both Præterita and Dilecta bound in.
Classification
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