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The Works of John Ruskin. Library Edition

Ruskin, John. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (Editors)

London. George Allen. 1903–1912
The complete literary works of John Ruskin.

This edition remains the only collected edition of Ruskin, limited to 2062 copies and produced to a very high standard at the Ballantyne Press.
39 vols. Large 8vo. (250 x 176 mm). Monochrome and colour plates and text illustrations throughout. Contemporary burgundy half-morocco by W. J. Mansell with his stamp to front free endpapers verso, marbled boards and endpapers, banded spines with gilt titles, t.e.g. others uncut.
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