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Houghton Mifflin. Collectible - Good. Condition: Good +; Hardcover, two volumes. Maroon cloth. Second edition 1893. The books are in Good+ condition with clean covers and pages and tight, square bindings. Title page in Vol. 1 loose.

London: Methuen & Co., 1893. Very Good. Second edition. 8vos, pp. [xvi], 244 + colour frontis and b/w plates; pp. [viii], 286 + fold-out facsimile manuscript frontis and b/w plates. Full tree calf, olive morocco labels, raised bands, spines tooled in gilt, gilt foliate borders, edges with gilt roll tool borders. Marbled edges and endpapers, blind turn-ins. Both vols. include an Appendix, comprising a Chronology, Bibliography and Catalogue. Both vols. spine ends worn and nicked, rubbed at joints and edges, joints cracked. Bookseller sticker to each rear pastedown. Edges and endpapers edges tobacco-darkened. Else, pleasingly clean and tight. An attractive copy of this standard biography of Ruskin. William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) was an author, artist and antiquary, who was a pupil and great supporter of Ruskin's, helping to memorialise him not just in print, but also via the Ruskin Museum in Coniston. His biography of Ruskin became a standard work: first published in 1893 (with a limited… Read More

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893. Large Paper Edition, No. 8 of 200 copies. With portraits and other illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. Linen-backed boards, paper spine labels. Spines a little sunned; Very Good. Large Paper Edition, No. 8 of 200 copies. With portraits and other illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo.