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First Edition Thus. Hard cover, 16 mo., in publisher's brown cloth with blocked image of a painter's pallet to center of the front board, and a band of blind-stamped filigree decoration. Collation: ix, [11]-125, and a 4pp. publisher's catalogue, listing a further seven of Ruskin's works. Condition: Good. Externally, an inch long cloth repair at head of spine. Internally, there is some foxing, most pronounced to end papers. Pages browned at margins, with scattered foxing. Old ink owner's signature dated 1858 upon front fly. This was the first American edition of Ruskin's lectures in Manchester, England delivered July, 10th and 13th, 1857. In it, Ruskin argues for the best work to be produced by painters and other artists (potters, metalworkers et al), they must be provided a liberal and disciplined education in their crafts, and be managed with consideration and with an eye to innate "wit and intellect" in order to produce the best results, among other themes. This work was first published the prior year in London by Smith Elder; this appears to be the first American imprint. New York publishers Wiley and Halstead, founded in 1807, published a number of the works of John Ruskin, beginning in 1849. REF: P. Gölitz, "200 Years of John Wiley and Sons," (2007). OCLC No. 669960746.
Ref: ESSY 8383
$37.00