Modern painters
By: by John Ruskin ...
Edition: A new ed.
Publisher: Smith, Elder
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Painting; Aesthetics
Notes: Generally known as the Autograph Edition, cf. Wise II, 285.

Preface signed by the author.

Preface: " ... This final edition must, however, be limited to a thousand copies ... "

Access to portions of this material may be restricted.

From the John Ruskin Collection of R. Dyke Benjamin.

Contemporary autograph on title page of volume 1: "[E.H.L.Crosby?]".

Bound in publisher's blind-stamped olive cloth over boards; spines stamped in gilt.
Table of contents: title: V. 1. pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed.; title: v. 2. pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed.; title: v. 3. pt. 4. Of many things.; title: v. 4. pt. 5. Of mountain beauty; title: v. 5. pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation.