HANDSOME ILLUSTRATED SET OF RUSKIN'S WORKS
RUSKIN, John. Complete Works. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1889. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter black calf gilt, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges gilt.
Handsomely bound 1889 edition of the works of Ruskin, whose writings on art and architecture defined Victorian aesthetic sensibilities, illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text wood-engraved drawings and reproductions of paintings. Handsomely bound.
"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art… Of the three the only trustworthy one is the last." Writer, critic, and artist, John Ruskin was the chief influence upon public taste in Victorian England. Includes Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and others.
A handsome set in fine condition.