Book contents
- Frontmatter
- GENERAL PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
- EARLY PROSE WRITINGS
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- 1 “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
- 2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY” (1834, 1836), AND OTHER NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE
- 3 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE” (1838, 1839), WITH A PAPER FROM LOUDON'S EDITION OF REPTON'S “LANDSCAPE GARDENING” (1840)
- 4 ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
- 5 LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
- 6 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER (1841)
- 7 THREE LETTERS AND AN ESSAY. BY JOHN RUSKIN, 1836—1841 FOUND IN HIS TUTOR'S DESK
- 8 LETTERS TO A COLLEGE FRIEND (1840—45)
- APPENDIX
- Plate Section
1 - “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- GENERAL PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
- EARLY PROSE WRITINGS
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- 1 “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
- 2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY” (1834, 1836), AND OTHER NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE
- 3 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE” (1838, 1839), WITH A PAPER FROM LOUDON'S EDITION OF REPTON'S “LANDSCAPE GARDENING” (1840)
- 4 ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
- 5 LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
- 6 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER (1841)
- 7 THREE LETTERS AND AN ESSAY. BY JOHN RUSKIN, 1836—1841 FOUND IN HIS TUTOR'S DESK
- 8 LETTERS TO A COLLEGE FRIEND (1840—45)
- APPENDIX
- Plate Section
Summary
[Bibliographical Note.—The Poetry of Architecture first appeared serially, in The Architectural Magazine (1837—38), as indicated below in footnotes to the successive chapters. The papers were first collected in book form in 1873, in an unauthorised edition, by an American publisher (John Wiley & Son, New York); the volume was entitled “The Poetry of Architecture, Cottage, Villa, etc., to which is added Suggestions on Works of Art. With numerous illustrations. By Kata Phusin (Nom de plume of John Ruskin).” The only authorised edition was issued in England in 1893. The title page was as follows:—
The ∣ Poetry of Architecture: ∣ or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe ∣ considered in its association with natural scenery ∣ and national character. ∣ By John Ruskin. ∣ With Illustrations by the Author. ∣ George Allen, ∣ Sunnyside, Orpington, ∣ and ∣ 8, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. ∣ 1893.
Large Post Quarto, pp. xii. +261. Chromolithograph frontispiece, 14 photogravure plates, and 14 other illustrations. A special edition of 300 copies on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper, with the Plates on India paper, was issued at the price of Two and a Half Guineas, bound in Half Parchment with dark green cloth sides; the ordinary edition of 2000 copies, with all the illustrations, at the price of One Guinea, cased in green cloth. Prefatory Notes, signed “The Editor” (W. G. Collingwood), occupied pp. v.–viii.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 1 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903