Modern Painters

New York. John Wiley and Sons. 1886. Attractively bound in 3/4 green calfskin and marbled boards. Gilt ruled spine compartments with gilt tooled emblematic motifs. Gilt tooled raised bands. Gilt titles. Marbled edges and endsheets. 8vo. Illustrated throghout with plates after engravings, sepia-tones, drawings, charts, vignettes, etc... Some very mild rubbing to spines. A Fine, bright, crisp set.Featured… Read more about this item

Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen 1888. Folio. 6 volumes. Green cloth binding with gilt lettered spine. Some marks and minor bubbling to the boards with wear and occasional splits to the spine ends. Volume 4 is damaged with staining and loss to the front board. Some occasional spotting internally and bindings firm. Owner's bookplate to the front endpapers. Illustrations in… Read more about this item

George Allen , 1888 . Hardback. . 6 volumes imperial 8vo publisher's original olive green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages uncut. The picture on this listing page is of the actual books for sale. All volumes Good/Good+. Corners bumped, small losses at top of spine on some vols. A few vols. have vertical wear/splitting along hinges. Volume 1 has… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1851-1860. Various Editions. small 4to., 5 volumes; VG; 3/4 bound in dark green leather, spines paneled with elaborate gilt tooling, gilt lettering in two panels; green cloth boards; bumping and peeling to corners, head and tail of spine; green marbled endpapers; top edge of text block gilt; interior free from age marks; volume one… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1865. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Dedicated to the landscape painters of England, says the Page of Dedication, these five hardcover copies comprising as fine a survey of "Modern" painting (to the cessation of the American Civil War anyway) as one can find today. Sturdy,… Read more about this item

George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1892. 2nd Edition. HARDCOVER. Large paper second edition in complete form (Quarto size (4to)). Five volumes complete (a separate index volume was published at a later date), uniformly bound in brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine: All plates and tissue guards present as called for __CONDITION : FINE, an extremely well preserved and… Read more about this item

London, 1873. Final and third edition, limited to 1000 copies. Royal 8vo. 3/4 leather and lovely satin finish marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Bindings are attractive with only a little rubbing here and there along the joints and head and foot of spines. A set of tight, clean, very good books with some heavy foxing on prelims of… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1857; 1856; 1860. 5 volumes. Early Editions of Volumes I and II, First Editions of Volumes III, IV and V, all uniform in size and binding. With 3 frontispiece plates, 84 fine steel-engraved plates and 8 wood-engraved plates, in colours and black and white Royal 8vo, exquisitely bound by Riviere and… Read more about this item

George Allen, 1891. Hardcover. Very good/None. Fourth edition. Half bound in green leather over marbled paper boards and matching marbled endpapers. Attractive gilt tooling, raised bands on spine, gilt top edge and deckled fore-edge. All pages are clean and unmarked aside from previous owner's name and date on first free paper. Minor foxing throughout. Binding and hinges secure.… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 1988. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1988. Thick 8vo., xliv+656pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. Edited and abridged by David Barrie. Ex-library with library markings. Front flyleaf lacking, else very good, clean, bright, unmarked in very good dust jacket.. Hard. Good/Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1856-1860. Volume 1 is the sixth edition, volume 2 is the fourth edition, volumes 3- 5 are first editions. Red half morocco bindings, Imperial 8vos. With the estate bookplate of Sir James Dunn, inserted after his death. From the library of Lady Beaverbrook, at Daybreak. All volumes lack half-titles, foxing to plates and endpapers. Bindings… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. Five-volume set. Seventh Edition. 8vo. lxiii, 423; xvi, 217; xix, 348 pp.; xii, 411 pp. xvi, 384 pp. Full red morocco lettered in gilt, marbled edges. b/w engraved plates throughout. Several heavy lines of dark moisture soiling across front board of volume one, top edges darkened, boards rubbed and lightly scuffed, a few spots… Read more about this item

London: George Allen, 1897. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A Bickers' bound set of one of John Ruskin's important and influential Victorian artistic works, a lovely set in a full vellum binding. Complete in six volumes.In a full vellum binding by Bickers & Son. Volume III illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour plate, and sixteen monochrome… Read more about this item

Sunnyside, Orpington, London: George Allen, 1897. 6 Volume Set. NO priority, no international orders. New Edition in Small Format. Marbled paper over boards in half leather bindings with rubs at spine ends. Gilt upper page edges. Marbled endpapers. Unmarked books with a light bit of foxing to prelims and page edges. Many pages… Read more about this item

New York: Wiley, 1868. First US edition. Good condition; Head of spine cover missing on volume 1; Otherwise, very good with general wear and toning to text block; A few pages uncut and torn .. Five volumes; Half leather bound; pp. lxvii, 422, 224, xiii, 348, iv, 492, xi, 396.

George Allen. 1906 Hardback edition, no dust jacket. Modern Painters series published by George Allen, General Index and volumes 4 available 23.10.13. Volume 5 - Of Leaf Beauty. Of Cloud Beauty, Of Ideas Of Relation . Good. Hardback. 1906.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 039456846X . Hardcover with dustjacket, first American printing of this abridgment, book is in excellent condition, a remainder mark on the top edge Is the only remarkable flaw, the jacket is clean and presentable with no significant flaws, the original… Read more about this item

Former Library book with all Library markings and stamps. Volume 1 only of 5 volumes. Brown cloth covered hardcover boards with gilt lettering on spine. Some general edgewear to boards, bumped corners and some age toning to pages. Binding tight and text clean. Very readable copy. John Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, and art critic of the Victorian era.… Read more about this item

The Blackfriars Publishing, 1111. Hardcover. Good. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed.

The Blackfriars Publishing Co, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Grey and blue cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy foxing to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.… Read more about this item