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London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874. New Edition. Hardcover. Contents fresh and clean; hinges sound, tightly bound. Cloth also bright and clean with some fraying along spine edges and tips. Near Fine set and increasingly uncommon as such. John Ruskin. Three large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") volumes in the publisher's brown blindstamped and gilt-decorated cloth. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the author at the end of the preface. Illustrated with 62 plates, many in color, and drawings in the text by the author. First published about 20 years before this attractive, SIGNED edition, it is one of the key texts of the aesthetic movement. Early bookplate of American architect Joseph Prince Loud, Architect (1865-1942) on the front pastedown of each volume.