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Jim Dearden
Jim Dearden’s latest book, A John Ruskin Collection, brings together a lifetime’s worth of articles on the lives of John Ruskin and those around him
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John Ruskin
Reflecting Ruskin's belief that art is not an isolated pursuit, but one intimately connected with all aspects of human life, Lectures on Art explores the relation of art to religion…
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Unto this Last, first published in 1860, is possibly the most influential political essay ever written, with a huge impact on British socialism, and on figures such as Tolstoy, Gandhi…
Classic work by great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. Authoritative edition includes reproductions of 14 plates of Ruskin’s architectural drawings.
Never collected together before, this volume brings together all of Ruskin’s writings about the Pre-Raphaelites, writings that helped turn this obscure movement into one of the most important movements in…
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John Ruskin,William Morris
The first facsimile of Ruskin’s epoch-making ‘Nature of Gothic’ as printed by his disciple William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Essays by specialist contributors enlarge on the great significance of…
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The Elements of Drawing was written during the winter of 1856. The First Edition was published in 1857; the Second followed in the same year, with some additions and slight…
James S. Dearden
John Ruskin was one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century. His study of art and architecture in Britain and Europe led him to consider of the conditions…
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William Smart
Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.
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J Marshall Mather
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Anne Longmuir
John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell…
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
The intelligent English traveller, in this fortunate age for him, is aware that, half-way between Boulogne and Paris, there is a complex railway-station, into which his train, in its relaxing…
Mornings in Florence - Time and Tide; The Art of England; Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is…
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Time and Tide By Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human…
D Duncan
This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin's classic Victorian text.
John Ruskin, Susanna Beever
Edmund J Baillie
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
Frederic Harrison
A biography of Ruskin, an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the pre-eminent art critic of his time. This book chronicles his life from its origin in London to his…
Patrick Geddes
Andrew Ballantyne
A new critical biography of prominent 19th-century art and architecture critic John Ruskin, which shows how Ruskin’s ideas gave a clear moral character to art, architecture and the picturesque and…
Fra Elbert Hubbard
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Shaw William Hudson
Mather Marshall
