10 volumes, the major source and inspiration for Ruskins The Bible of Amiens, a combination of religious exposition and architectural history. This set was probably taken to France by Ruskin as there is a sketch of tracery in pencil on a flyleaf in volume 6, dated Beauvais 1888. The set has now joined the 300 or so other books owned by Ruskin in the care of the Ruskin foundation at the University
Item Provenance
John Ruskins copy, heavily annotated in his hand and with colouring added by him to some of the wood engravings; volumes remained at Brantwood until 1931 when they were sold at Sothebys to Charles Goodspeed; bought in Boston in the 1960s by Professor Derek Linstrum