Search Results: the nature of gothic a by john ruskin

Euston Grove Press, 2008-07-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Euston Grove Press, 2008. Paperback. New. 92 pages. 8.82x5.83x0.24 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Sunnyside: George Allen, 1899. 8vo, 80 pp, ill., dark green publisher's cloth architecture

Euston Grove Press, 2008-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

George Allen 1899. First edition, octavo, grey light card covers with back & red lettering to front cover, x + 80pp, illus, VG- (2cm archival tape repair to lower spine, moderately heavy browning to spine & page edges, some staining to covers, heavy creasing & some loss to cover edges due to Yapp binding, some foxing throughout)

Allen and Unwin, 1928-01-01. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback without dust cover. Well read copy, some spine wear, still very useable, colouring of page edges due to age.

London: Kelmscott Press, 1892 Preface by William Morris. First edition thus. One of 500 copies printed in "golden" type. Bound in contemporary vellum, with titles in gilt to spine. Near fine, with light soiling to vellum, light toning to page edges, lacking ties, and some rippling to pages. Overall, a beautiful copy. The Nature of Gothic is a chapter from English writer John Ruskin's three-volume work, Stones of Venice (1851-1853), which explores the history of Venice and its architecture. In the chapter, Ruskin praises Gothic architecture as emblematic of an ideal in which joy, freedom, and creative expression are found in labor. Ruskin - and particularly this chapter of his - profoundly shaped Morris' views on labor and the importance of handcraftsmanship, which Morris promulgated in the Arts and Crafts movement. In his preface to The Nature of Gothic, Morris writes "To my mind, and I believe to some others, [The Nature of Gothic] is one of the most important things written… Read More

London: Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1892. Limited to 500 copies. Book measures 21x15.cm. iv[1],127,[1]pp, With one elaborately decorated border, two Kelmscott woodcut devices printed in two places at the end of the table of contents and on the colophon, numerous woodcut initials, and several architectural woodcut figures in-text. Bound in original publishers full vellum, with gilt lettering and date. Vellum dust marked, spot marking, boards slightly sprung, lacking ties. Binding in good firm conmdition. Internally, previous owners bookplate. Pages in very good clean condition. A nice copy. . Limited Edition. Vellum. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. One of 500 copies printed on paper, there were no vellum copies. 20 architectural line-block figures in text. Border on the first page of the text, 111 six- and, mainly, ten-line initial letters, all by William Morris, engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper et al, the initial letters then being electroplated. Press device printed in two places at the end of the table of contents and on the colophon. Printed in black and red Golden type on hand-made Batchelor Flower paper, with decorated initials, numbers, titles and side notes printed in red throughout. Sm. 4to., original stiff vellum with brown silk ties, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, fore- and lower edges untrimmed. A very good tight copy without the usual bowing and with all the ties, vellum with some marks and a little darkening to the edges.||The chapter from his Stones of Venice which Ruskin always believed to be the most important and which was first printed separately in 1854 as a sixpenny pamphlet. Morris… Read More