Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain

by John Ruskin

$400 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1871-1884. First edition. 8vo. 8 volumes: various paginations through the first three volumes for individual letters; 4 , 294; 4 , 396; 2 , 354; 4 , 412; 4 , 306 pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits, facsimiles, in-text line drawings; lacking the index volume published in 1887. In an effort to cure what seemed to him the anarchy outside, Ruskin established an organ for his propaganda. This was 'Fors Clavigera,' a monthly

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