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Poems.
London: printed by Spottiswoode & Shaw, for private circulation], 1850. Small octavo (170 x 100mm). Original green morocco-grained cloth, covers bordered in blind, the upper cover stamped in gilt with a lyre motif, the lower cover with the same stamp in blind, spine gilt, g.e., by Westleys & Co. (ticket on rear pastedown), green cloth box. Provenance : J.O. Edwards (booklabel). a fine copy of the rarest of all ruskin’s works : only three copies have appeared at auction in the past 30 years including the Bradley Martin copy (“the Rara Avis of Ruskin Literature”) in 1990, and the Dannay copy in 1983. Ashley Library IV, p.180; Shepherd Ruskin 25; Wise Ruskin 9.