Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition.
Publicado por Knopf, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, Francia
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: near Very Good. First printing of this edition. Volume 279 in the Everyman's Library series. Introduction by Tim Hilton. 8vo. Pp xli + 564. Claret cloth boards stamped in gilt on a black panel on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. The boards are lightly bumped at the lower corners.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Andrew's Books, San Diego, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book in burgundy boards with matching ribbon has minor shelf-wear, vertical white mark to back cover. A solid copy of #279 in the inestimable Everyman's.
Publicado por Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Publicado por Random House, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Majestic Books, Hounslow, Reino Unido
Condición: New. pp. 704.
Publicado por Everyman, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Written in the 1880s, this autobiography of one of Britain's most famous art critics of the 19th century describes his upbringing in a respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations and the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes. An introduction by Kenneth Clark sets "Praeterita" in its proper context and draws attention to its particular merits. Also included in this work are Ruskin's supplement of letters, diary notes and extracts from literature, and a glossary identifying many of the people named in the book.Born in London in 1819 as the only child of prosperous but possessive parents, John Ruskin was a sensitive, talented and observant boy who grew up to be the most significant anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century. His unfinished autobiography, PRAETERITA, was his last major work, begun in 1885 and written in the lucid intervals from a dementia which finally enveloped him completely until his death in 1901. Despite the circumstances of its composition, the book is written in the most luminous style which even the nineteenth century, that great age of English prose, can show. PRAETERITA is an account of childhood, boyhood and youth. It tells the story of Ruskin's early years, describing the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists - most famously his father's friend, J.M.W. Turner. All these experiences are set in the context of domestic life in pre-Victorian England, described in exquisite detail. But PRAETERITA is far more than a mere memoir. It is, to paraphrase Wordsworth, the story of a poet's mind, belonging with comparable works of non-fiction by Newman, Tolstoy and Henry Adams, and with fictional accounts of childhood by Dickens, George Eliot, James and Proust. This edition of PRAETERITA is accompanied by DILECTA, Ruskin's own selection from his letters, diaries and passages from other writings which throw further light on his memoirs. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Reino Unido
Condición: New. In.
Publicado por Everyman, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irlanda
Condición: New. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 33 x 135. Weight in Grams: 662. . 2005. Hardcover. . . . .
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. Buy for Great customer experience.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Big Bill's Books, Wimberley, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. Brand New Copy.
Publicado por Everyman, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 33 x 135. Weight in Grams: 662. . 2005. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 704 pages. 8.27x5.31x1.18 inches. In Stock.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked and seemingly unread condition bound in burgundy cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to a black panel on the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. John Ruskin was born in London in 1819, of Scottish descent. His father was a succesful wine-merchant and art lover; his mother a strict Evangelical whose religious instruction affected him deeply. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1836 and graduated in 1842. In 1843, the first of the five volumes of Modern Painters was published, a work written in defense of J.M.W. Turner. The other volumes survey the main traditions of European painting from Giotto to the nineteenth century. Ruskin was also passionately interested in Gothic architecture and published two books on the subject before the completion of Modern Painters: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and the three volumes of The Stones of Venice in 1851 and 1853. He married Effie Gray in 1848, but seven years later the marriage was annulled on grounds of non-consummation. In 1858 he met Rose la Toche, a girl of nine, with whom he fell in love and became increasingly obsessed, and in that year he finally lost his Evangelical faith. In 1860, disillusioned with a society in which poverty was rampant and the poor exploited, he began the first of four essays attacking the science of Political Economy. They were published in book form in 1862, uner the title, Unto this Last. This was followed in 1863 by Munera Pulveris, which puts forward some positive proposals for economic change and reform. In 1869 he became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford and in 1871 began writing Fors Clavigera, a series of open letters which draw connections between diverse subjects. He also took part in many practical projects, many of which he directed by way of his Utopian pressure-group, the Guild of St. George. When Rose la Touche died insanse in 1875, however, he began to show signs of mental disturbance and suffered the first of seven mental breakdowns in 1878. In 1885 he began publishing his autobiography, Praeterita. This moving and lyrical book was brought to a premature conclusion by his last and most violent breakdown in 1889. He lived on, withdrawn and inactive, until 1900. Ref RRR 5.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Everyman., 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: INGARDIO, Schupfart, Suiza
21 x 3 cm. 564 S. Gebundene Ausgabe. xxx Ungelesenes Exemplar mit Lagerspuren am Schutzumschlag (am oberen Rand berieben) xxx STORAGE-RELATED TRACES Sprache: englisch.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: very good. Very Good Copy. Fast Shipment.
Publicado por Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: George Longden, Macclesfield, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Burgundy cloth. A bright, attractive copy, with a small bump at bottom corner of boards. 205 x 125 mm. xlii, 574 pp. Book.
Publicado por Everyman, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: Buchpark, Trebbin, Alemania
Condición: Gut. Zustand: Gut - Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. Außen: angestoßen. | Seiten: 704 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Publicado por Everyman's Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New.
Publicado por Everyman, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Written in the 1880s, this autobiography of one of Britain's most famous art critics of the 19th century describes his upbringing in a respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations and the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes. An introduction by Kenneth Clark sets "Praeterita" in its proper context and draws attention to its particular merits. Also included in this work are Ruskin's supplement of letters, diary notes and extracts from literature, and a glossary identifying many of the people named in the book.Born in London in 1819 as the only child of prosperous but possessive parents, John Ruskin was a sensitive, talented and observant boy who grew up to be the most significant anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century. His unfinished autobiography, PRAETERITA, was his last major work, begun in 1885 and written in the lucid intervals from a dementia which finally enveloped him completely until his death in 1901. Despite the circumstances of its composition, the book is written in the most luminous style which even the nineteenth century, that great age of English prose, can show. PRAETERITA is an account of childhood, boyhood and youth. It tells the story of Ruskin's early years, describing the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists - most famously his father's friend, J.M.W. Turner. All these experiences are set in the context of domestic life in pre-Victorian England, described in exquisite detail. But PRAETERITA is far more than a mere memoir. It is, to paraphrase Wordsworth, the story of a poet's mind, belonging with comparable works of non-fiction by Newman, Tolstoy and Henry Adams, and with fictional accounts of childhood by Dickens, George Eliot, James and Proust. This edition of PRAETERITA is accompanied by DILECTA, Ruskin's own selection from his letters, diaries and passages from other writings which throw further light on his memoirs. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Publicado por Everyman, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857152794 ISBN 13: 9781857152791
Librería: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Written in the 1880s, this autobiography of one of Britain's most famous art critics of the 19th century describes his upbringing in a respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations and the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes. An introduction by Kenneth Clark sets "Praeterita" in its proper context and draws attention to its particular merits. Also included in this work are Ruskin's supplement of letters, diary notes and extracts from literature, and a glossary identifying many of the people named in the book.Born in London in 1819 as the only child of prosperous but possessive parents, John Ruskin was a sensitive, talented and observant boy who grew up to be the most significant anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century. His unfinished autobiography, PRAETERITA, was his last major work, begun in 1885 and written in the lucid intervals from a dementia which finally enveloped him completely until his death in 1901. Despite the circumstances of its composition, the book is written in the most luminous style which even the nineteenth century, that great age of English prose, can show. PRAETERITA is an account of childhood, boyhood and youth. It tells the story of Ruskin's early years, describing the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists - most famously his father's friend, J.M.W. Turner. All these experiences are set in the context of domestic life in pre-Victorian England, described in exquisite detail. But PRAETERITA is far more than a mere memoir. It is, to paraphrase Wordsworth, the story of a poet's mind, belonging with comparable works of non-fiction by Newman, Tolstoy and Henry Adams, and with fictional accounts of childhood by Dickens, George Eliot, James and Proust. This edition of PRAETERITA is accompanied by DILECTA, Ruskin's own selection from his letters, diaries and passages from other writings which throw further light on his memoirs. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.