Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “A JOY FOR EVER” BEING THE SUBSTANCE (WITH ADDITIONS) OF TWO LECTURES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART (1857, 1880)
- PART II INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF ART (1858)
- PART III THE OXFORD MUSEUM (1858, 1859)
- PART IV “THE TWO PATHS” (1859)
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE (1859)
- PREFACE (1878)
- CONTENTS
- TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS
- APPENDIX: ADDRESSES AND LETTERS 1856–1860
- Plate section
PREFACE (1878)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “A JOY FOR EVER” BEING THE SUBSTANCE (WITH ADDITIONS) OF TWO LECTURES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART (1857, 1880)
- PART II INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF ART (1858)
- PART III THE OXFORD MUSEUM (1858, 1859)
- PART IV “THE TWO PATHS” (1859)
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE (1859)
- PREFACE (1878)
- CONTENTS
- TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS
- APPENDIX: ADDRESSES AND LETTERS 1856–1860
- Plate section
Summary
Here is another of my books republished at the request of my earnest and kind friend, Mr. Henry Willett; a statement especially due to him, because, in glancing over the sheets as re-issued, I find them full of useful things which I did not know I had said, and should probably have wasted much time in saying again; and I am therefore heartily glad that these four lectures are again made generally readable.
I have no time nor sight now, however, for the revision of old plates: what my eyes can do, must be fresh work: and besides, I own to a very enjoyable pride in making the first editions of my books valuable to their possessors, who found out, before other people, that these writings and drawings really were good for something. I have retained therefore in this edition only the woodcuts necessary for the explanation of the text: and the two lovely engravings by Messrs. Cuff and Armytage will, I hope, render the old volume more or less classical among collectors. They were merely its ornaments, and the few references to them are withdrawn from the present edition without the slightest harm to its usefulness.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 255 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1905