john ruskin de harrison frédéric (92 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket As Issued. First edition / 2nd Printing. First edition / Second printing. Good, Spine slightly darkened, light rubbing along edges of binding. 13 x 19cm. hard cover. 216pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Etat : Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Etat : Fair. 1902. Reprinted. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends with splits and fraying cloth. Label remains stuck to front board. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Clean unmarked. NO WRITING NOR HIGHLIGHTING. NOT a former library book. Red boards with gilt lettering and top page edges.

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None. 216 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Record # 402721.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition is very good. First Edition, ex-Library however, the card on the back cover shows that it never circulated.

Etat : New.

HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1902 macmillan edition on red cloth.

HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge gilt (VG). Pp. viii + 216 (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

Etat : New. In.

Etat : Good. 1913. Reprint. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Full leather binding with gilt lettering. Rebound. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front paste down. Front hinge cracked. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine and board edges.

Decorative Cloth. Etat : Good. Early Reprint. London: Macmillan, 1925. Early reprint. Pretty turquoise cloth binding with gilt decoration and titles.216 pp. Binding crisp. Ex-library markings including labels to front board and spine, marking on spine, stampings, bar code, pocket. Due date slip removed leaving rub to rear endpaper. Good.

Blue Cloth. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 216 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end page.

Hard Cover. Etat : Fair to Good. Reprint. Red cloth with slightly faded gilt lettering on spine. Slightly rubbed to edges. Cloth hinges exposed between front end papers. 216 pages clean and tight. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. John Ruskin was a giant of critical exposition - he was one of the accepted arbiters of taste in the Victorian era, and his essays and books among the most widely-read in the world of English letters. In this charming book, issued in Macmillan's "English Men of Letters Series", Frederic Harrison offered up a combination biography and critical evaluation that serves well as an introduction to the work, life and thought of John Ruskin. It is not a full-blown biography, nor does it shock the reader with unwonted speculations and nor does it have a critical axe to grind. It is straightforward and to the point. That being said, Harrison is good at displaying the numerous meaty nuggets to be found in his subject, but it is also obvious that he was much admiring of Ruskin, and while the book doesn't quite approach hagiographical status, it is a well-intended laudatory effort. ****************** Here is a brief excerpt, just to give a flavor: There is much fine moral and social edification in the book too! (he is speaking of The Stones of Venice ) All that he tells us how the life and work of the actual worker is after all the essence of Art; the scorn that he pours on the pitiful tricks of imitating the grain of fine wood and marble on plaster and deal boards; the meaning of 'education' as distinct from the cramming in of information; the teaching as to true and false ornament, as to the variety in ornament, as to the dignity of pure color - this and a thousand other suggestions make it , as Carlyle truly said, 'a sermon on stones'. **************** In the sixth chapter of the second volume is a passage about the mental slavery of modern workmen which may be said to be the creed, if not the origin, of a new industrial school of thought. It is as powerful in expression as it is elevated in conception. Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies, and yet remain in one sense, and the best sense, free. But to smother their souls within them, to blight and hew into rotting pollards the suckling branches of their human intelligence, to make the flesh and skin, which after the worm's work on it, is to see god, into leathern thongs to yoke machinery with, - this is to be slave-master indeed; and there might be more freedom in England, though her feudal lord's lightest words were worth men's lives, and though the blood of the vexed husbandman dropped in the furrows of her fields, then there is while the animation of her multitudes is sent like fuel to feed the factory smoke, and the strength of them is given daily to be wasted into the fineness of a web, or racked into the exactness of a line . ***************** From Wikipedia : As a religious teacher, literary critic, historian and jurist, Harrison took a prominent part in the life of his time, and his writings, though often violently controversial on political, religious and social subjects, and in their judgment and historical perspective characterized by a modern Radical point of view, are those of an accomplished scholar, and of one whose wide knowledge of literature was combined with independence of thought and admirable vigour of style. ****************** And so, we can see why Mr. Harrison would wish to write about Ruskin, and maybe you can see why one might want to read Harrison's words about Ruskin's words. I warrant there's a good read in this book. ****************** SERIES: English Men of Letters. / TITLE : John Ruskin. / AUTHOR : Frederic Harrison. / PUBLISHER: Macmillan Company. / PLACE: New York. / DATE: February 1903. / EDITION : 2nd U. S. Printing. / STATUS : OP - Out of Print. / PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Trade Hardcover; contains an index; vi +[ii] + 216 pages; approximately 4 7/8" x 7 1/4"; dark blue rasp-textured cloth with tile, etc stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's series device stamped in gilt in center of front board; boards, front and rear, have simple line embellishments stamped in blind at top and bottom. top edge gilt;

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Red boards with gilt titles and top closed page edge. Firmly bound with some very slight cracking to the front internal board hinge. Faded spine with a little light wear to top edge Some neatly handwritten notes in pencil inside. Typewritten label of previous owner on front end paper.

Red Cloth. Etat : VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrateur). Reprint. Gold gilt to top fore-edge. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Name Inscribed.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. London: Macmillan, 1902. First edition. 12mo. Dark blue pebble cloth binding, gilt EML logo to front board, titles in gilt, top edge gilt. 216 pp. Antique ex-library with attractive bookplate of historic library in USA, hand-numbered and hand-dated. Faint letter "B" to spine and a few library stamps inside, but no pocket. A seemingly unread survivor in otherwise near fine condition.

Etat : New. In.

Etat : Very Good. Third printing. Crown 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt (dusty). Edgewear. Endpapers foxed and browed, else clean and tight. Includes adverts for the series.

Etat : New. In.