John Ruskin
The Works of John Ruskin, XXVI: Deucalion and Other Studies in Rocks and Stones.
London/New York: George Allen/Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. Library edition. Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. lxviii/605 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 to spine. 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 color frontispiece, textual illustrations and facsimiles.
"Two thousand and sixty-two copies of this edition - of which two thousand are for sale in England and America."
"This volume collects Ruskin's writings on Geology and Mineralogy. "Deucalion" -- the principal work here included -- was itself intended to collect "the notices of phenomena relating to geology which were scattered through my former works": but the scheme of that book was altered as it advanced, and it came to consist almost entirely of additional studies. Many of "the notices" to which he refers are contained in other volumes; more especially the fourth volume of "Modern Painters," in the case of geology, and "The Ethics of the Dust," in that of mineralogy. These are, of course, not here repreated, though references to them are often supplied in editorial notes. With these exceptions, the present volume brings together all the author's papers, letters, lectures, books, and catalogues on the subjects in question."