First edition. A smart collection of lectures by writer, art historian and polymath John Ruskin, which includes some of his most poignant teachings on late-Victorian fields of painting. The lectures include realistic, mythic, and classic schools with additional lectures given on fairyland, the hillside, and the fireside.
In very good condition with a sunned spine, light scuffing to the spine ends, gently bumped corners, light sunning to the upper boards, light foxing to the block edges. Half-bound in green leather with unusual marbled boards, matching endpapers, gilt ruling to boards with gilt titles to spine, two edges untrimmed, the top edge gilt. 26 x 19.5 cm. Pp. [2], [vii], 292.
