- 97
Ruskin, John
Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description
- Poems. J.R. Collected 1850. London: Spottiswood and Shaw, 1850.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo. Original plum cloth by Westleys & Co., with its label on lower endpaper, blind decoration on covers of lyre within foliage border, edges not in gilt, yellow endpapers; slight offsetting from bookplates.
Provenance
Herschel V. Jones, with his bookplate, his sale, Anderson, 29 January 1919, lot 1363; Louis H. Silver, with his bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's London, 9 November 1965, lot 278; H Bradley Martin, his sale, Sotheby's New York, Apr 30, 1990, lot 3154.
Literature
Wise and Smart 9.
Catalogue Note
first edition. A collection of poems written between the ages of 14 and 26. "It was not published, but merely printed for private circulation, and has now become the Rara Avis of Ruskin literature." (Wise) A fine copy.