Salsette and Elephanta: a Prize Poem

by John Ruskin

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition of the author's first book. 17 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Polished tan calf, gilt, t.e.g. Rebacked preserving spine. Very good. Internally fine. Item #315006 Ruskin’s first book, published while a student at Christ Church, Oxford, the Newdigate Prize poem for 1839. With J. Ruskin's kind regards on the title-page.

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