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John Ruskin, two volumes comprising The Harbours of England and Modern Painters Vol. II, George Routledge & Sons Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co., Universal Edition, c. 1907

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John Ruskin, two volumes comprising The Harbours of England and Modern Painters Vol. II, George Routledge & Sons Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co., Universal Edition, c. 1907 auction lot image

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Two volumes from the George Routledge & Sons Universal Edition of John Ruskin's Works: the first, The Harbours of England, with the original engravings by Thomas Lupton after drawings made expressly for the work by J.M.W. Turner R.A., with illustrative text by John Ruskin, in the characteristic black morocco-style cloth with gilt-tooled spine and floral corner ornaments; the second, Modern Painters, Volume II, containing Part III in two sections, "Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties," in matching binding; both published by George Routledge & Sons Limited, London, and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, from the Universal Edition advertised as of June 1907. George Routledge & Sons Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co., Universal Edition, c. 1907

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