Item #723 Modern Painters. John Ruskin.
Modern Painters
Modern Painters

Modern Painters

London: 1873. Signed by Ruskin at the bottom of the Preface to the New Edition. 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 all volumes and a little light foxing scattered here and there. However, all plates are in very good condition. Item #723

Volumes 1-4 Out of 5 - Volume 5 is missing. Volumes 3 and 4 have etched plates, 18 in vol. 3 and 35 in vol. 4.

Affixed to the front pastedown endpaper of each volume is the engraved bookplate of C.R.L. Fletcher with a coat of arms. Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (10/22/1857 - 4/30/1934) was an English historian.

Price: $350.00