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Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · 1871 · New York, Wiley · 6 pictures

John Ruskin's serial letters on work, economy and art, addressed to British workmen and labourers and issued in this New York edition by Wiley from 1871. Plates mix woodcut details of Gothic ornament and masonry with photographic reproductions of classical and Renaissance figures, plus dark embossed cloth covers—useful for pattern fills, drapery studies and winged figure silhouettes.

Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems · Great Britain -- Social conditions 19th century

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