The Darkening Glass. A portrait of Ruskin's genius. [With plates, including a portrait.]

Rosenberg, John D

1961, 1st Edition. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Very good 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. Provenance; the critic and poetry activist Charles Tomlinson’s copy; signed by him and with his extensive annotations. Item #343600

Physical description: xiii, 274 pages. Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Art -- I. Nature, Truth, and Turner -- II. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory -- Architecture -- III. A Gothic Eden -- IV. Windows of Agate -- V. Venice: Stones and Touchstones -- Society -- VI. My Father's House -- VII. Dives and Lazarus -- VIII. No Wealth But Life -- Wilderness -- IX. Unstable as Water -- X. The Night Cometh -- Peace -- XI. The Past Recaptured -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Subjects: Ruskin, John 1819-1900. Ruskin, John.
Ruskin, John 1819-1900 Criticism and interpretation.

Price: €60.00