John Ruskin the Portrait of a Prophet by Quennell Peter - 1949

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. No edition remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Illustrated plates. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Missing front free end paper. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Collins, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.8071 cent in x 21.0660 cent in x 14.9746 cent in. FIRST EDITION with slightly torn dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

Collins, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1st HB Collins 1949; good in good unclipped dust jacket

London England: Collins, 1949. hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. The object of this book is to portray John Ruskin both as a writer and as a personality: to show the close connection between his personal growth and his literary development: and to suggest how the frustration of his private hopes finally brought to an end his career of public usefulness. Illustrated. 320 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.

London: Collins, 1949. First edition. Octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. 320; illustrated. Small rubber-stamp and numerals on endpaper, moderate foxing to endpapers and fore-edge, else a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket..

New York: Viking, 1949. First American edition. Octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. xiv, 289; illustrated. Spine faded, some bumping to top edge, else very good, lacking the dust jacket..

Collins, 1949T. hardcover. Very Good. 3.8071 in x 21.0660 in x 14.9746 in. Collins 1949 edition. Pages clean and bright, isncription on first page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

London : Collins, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Type: Book 1st printing.

London : Collins , 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 320 pages plates, portraits 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-314). Subjects: Ruskin, John 1819-1900. Ruskin, John. Ruskin, John 1819-1900 art critic and social critic. Ruskin, John 1819-1900; Biography. Ruskin, John 1819-1900. Authors, English 19th century; Biography. Art critics Great Britain. Authors, English 19th century; Biography. Writers Biography. Artists 19th century Biography. Ruskin, John. Biographies. Social reformers. Genre: Bibliography. Biographies. Illustrated.