John Ruskin
The Works of John Ruskin, XXII: Lectures on Landscape, Michael Angelo & Tintoret, The Eagle's Nest, Adriane Florentina, with Notes for Other Oxford Lectures.
London/New York: George Allen/Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. Library edition. Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. xliv/538 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 10.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering and emblem stamped in gold on front cover. Book displays shelfwear, with sunning and scattered white markings visible on covers. Binding is firm. Antique bookplate is affixed to front pastedown. Partially-uncut pages are clean and bright. Work is illustrated with tissue-guarded plates, including frontispiece, textual illustrations and facsimiles.
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"This volume continues the series of Ruskin's Oxford Lectures from Volume XX, and covers the years 1871 and 1872, to which, however, "Fors Clavigera," will, in a later volume, take us back. The works here included are: I. Three "Lectures on Landscape," delivered in January and February 1871. II. "The Relation between Micheal Angelo and Tintoret," and III. "The Eagle's Nest"; both of which were delivered in the earlier terms of 1872. IV. "Adriadne Florentina," delivered in November and December of the same year. In the Appendix are given, as explained below (p. xli.), Notes for two later courses -- "Studies in the "Discourses" of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (1875), and "Readings in "Modern Painters"" (1877) This arrangement, which is convenient for the better distribution of the material into volumes approximately of the same length, has the further advantage that the topics mainly treated  in these later courses are closely connected with the doctrines enforced in "The Eagle's Nest."
In the present Introduction account is first given of Ruskin's life and work during the years 1871 and 1872 so fas as, on the one hand, they have not already been covered in the two preceding volumes, and with special reference, on the other hand, to the lectures here collected. Some particulars then follow of the several books contained in the volume."