London. George Allen; New York. Longmans, Green & Co. 1903 - 1912. 39 vols with Publishers' Notice (pp. 8) loosely inserted into Vol 37. 38 frontis's, 977 plates, 100 facsimiles, with further line drawings, woodcuts and facsimiles in the text. Majority of plates with tissue guards. 8vo. Original maroon cloth, spines faded unevenly. Minor foxing. Some splitting of the endpapers at the hinges internally in Vols 6, 9, 20, 36, & 38. Small nick to top of front board on Vol 12. The set is mainly unopened. Limited editon of 2062 copies of which 2000 were for sale. Vol 1. Early Prose Writings 1834 to 1843; Vol 2. Poems; Vol 3. Modern Painters Vol 1 containing Parts I and II Of General Principles and of Truth; Vol 4. Modern Painters Vol 2 containing Part III, Sections I and II Of the Imagination and Theoretic Faculties. Vol 5. Modern Painters Vol 3 containing Part IV Of Many Things; Vol 6. Modern Painter Vol 4 containing Part V Of Mountain Beauty; Vol 7. Modern Painters Vol 5 completing the Work, and containing Parts VI Of Leaf beauty - VII Of Cloud Beauty - VIII Of Ideas of Relation 1. Of Invention Formal - IX Of Ideas of relation 2. Of Invention Spiritual; Vol 8 The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Vol 9. The Stones of Venice Vol I The Foundations; Vol 10. The Stones of Venice Vol II The Sea-Stories; Vol 11. The Stones of Venice Vol III The Fall and Examples of the Architecture of Venice; Vol 12. Lectures on Architecture and Painting (Edinburgh 1853) with Other Papers 1844 - 1854; Vol 13. Turner. The Harbours of England Catalogues and Notes; Vol 14. Academy Notes - Notes on Prout and Hunt and Other Art Criticisms 1855 - 1888; Vol 15. The Elements of Drawing, The Elements of Perspective and the Laws of Fesole; Vol 16. 'A Joy For Ever' and The Two Paths with Letters on The Oxford Museum and Various Addresses 1856 - 1860; Vol 17. Unto This Last, Munera Pulveris, Time and Tide with Other Writings on Political Economy 1860 - 1873; Vol 18. Sesame and Lilies, The Ethics of the Dust, The Crown of Wild Olive with Letters on Public Affairs 1859 - 1866; Vol 19. The Cestus of Aglaia and The Queen of the Air with other papers and Lectures on Art and Literature 1860 - 1870; Vol 20. Lectures on Art and Aratra Pentelici with Lectures and Notes on Greek Art and Mythology 1870; Vol 21. The Ruskin Art Collection Oxford - Catalogues, Notes and Instructions; Vol 22. Lectures on Landscape, Michael Angelo & Tintoret, The Eagle’s Nest, Ariadne Florentina, with Notes for other Oxford Lectures; Vol 23. Val D’Arno, The Schools of Florence, Mornings in Florence, The Shepherd’s Tower; Vol 24. Giotto and His Works in Padua, The Cavalli Monuments Verona, Guide to the Academy Venice, St. Mark’s Rest; Vol 25. Love’s Meinie and Proserpina; Vol 26. Deucalion and Other Studies in Rocks and Stone; Vol 27. Fors Clavigera Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain Vol I containing Letters 1 - 36, 1871, 1872, 1873; Vol 28. Fors Clavigera Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain Vol II containing Letters 37 - 72 1874, 1875, 1876; Vol 29. Fors Clavigera Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain Vol III containing Letters 73 - 96 1877, 1878 - 80 - 83 - 84 with the Author’s Index; Vol 30. The Guild and Museum of St George reports, Catalogues, and other Papers; Vol 31 Bibliotheca Pastorum: The Economist of Xenophon, Rock Honeycomb, The Elements of Prosody, and A Knight’s Faith; Vol 32. Studies of Peasant Life: The Story of Ida, Roadside Songs of Tuscany, Christ’s Folk in the Apennine, Ulric the Farm Servant; Vol 33. The Bible of Amiens, Valle Crucis, The Art of England, The Pleasures of England; Vol 34. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, On the Old Road, Arrows of the Chace, Ruskiniana; Vol 35. Praeterita and Dialecta; Vol 36. The letters of John Ruskin Vol I 1827 - 1869; Vol 37. The Letters of John Ruskin Vol II 1870 - 1889; Vol 38. Bibliography, Catalogue of Ruskin’s Drawings, Addenda et Corrigenda; Vol 39. General Index.

Order Number: 32590