Ruskin, John. Lectures on Landscape. Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871. With Twenty-Two Plates. First Edition. Orpington and London, George Allen, 1897. 38 x 28 cm. 84 pages with 22 Plates and two woodcuts in text. Original olive cloth with gilt title on front board. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Binding discoloured in places (see images). Edges dust dulled. Name of previous owner on front free end paper, internally age darkened, otherwise clean.

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany, and political economy.
His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, architectural structures, and ornamentation.
The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.
He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability, and craft.

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• First edition
• Inventory Number: 102637AB

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