Victorian visionary
Subtitle: John Ruskin and the realization of the ideal ; essays and an exhibition to celebrate the bicentenary of Ruskin's birth
By: edited by Peter X. Accardo
Publisher: Houghton Library
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Exhibitions; Aesthetics; British Aesthetics
Notes: "Victorian visionary: John Ruskin and the realization of the ideal is published in conjunction with an exhibition in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University, on view January 14-April 13, 2019."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Received May 16, 2019.

Received April 17, 2019.

One of thirty unnumbered deluxe copies signed by the exhibition curators.

Bound in blue cloth, with gold stamp on cover and paper label on spine.

As issued, in illustrated printed paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Thomas A. Hyry; title: "I'll build a stairway to paradise ... with a new step every day" : the case study of a collector's interest becoming a life guide and a force for the public good  -- R. Dyke Benjamin; title: An outspoken environmental prophet  -- Michael Wheeler; title: Victorian contributions to political economy and business ethics  -- Nien-hê Hsieh; title: Ruskin: the forgotten legacy in America  -- James L. Spates; title: Victorian visionary: John Ruskin and the realization of the ideal  -- Peter X. Accardo and R. Dyke Benjamin; title: Contributors.