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    Reference 3575 (1875)
    Category Miscellaneous
    Author Ruskin, John
    Title Fors Clavigera Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain Four Volumes Complete Set
    Publishing Information London, George Allen, 1896.
    Description 1896 Edition: This being a new edition in small form with illustrations and an Index at the end of each volume. Complete in four volumes. Vol I Letters 1-XXIV, index, 17 illustrations; Vol II Letters XXV-XLVIII, index, 4 illustrations; Vol III Letters XLIX-LXXII, index, 12 illustrations;Vol IV Letters LXXIII-XCVI, index, 8 illustrations. All volumes, original covers, top edge uncut. Pages age toned, contents clean. Vol II only end papers shows some foxing. A very nice set. "[In an] effort to cure what seemed to him the anarchy outside, [Ruskin] established an organ for his propaganda. This was 'Fors Clavigera,' a monthly letter 'to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain.' It is one of the curiosities of literature.... 'Fors' is full of passionate intensity....innumerable threads are knit together to enforce the author's economic principles... Ruskin's monthly organ was used to preach a crusade... and attempt to found a Utopia in England" (DNB). John Ruskin was a leading Victorian art critic, social thinker, writer and philanthropist. He wrote on a large variety of subjects including geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, literature, education and the arts.
    Price £125.00
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