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'Sunnyside', Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1893 (first edition). Quarto, xii, 261 pages with 14 illustrations plus 15 plates (4 in colour), with all artwork by John Ruskin. Contemporary full vellum ('Bound by Stoakley, late Hawes' and stamped in gilt with the coat of arms of the University of Cambridge); inner gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, others uncut; marbled endpapers; vellum a little discoloured; boards slightly bowed; tiny light tide-mark to the top margin of a small number of plates and leaves of text; minimal signs of age and use; overall, in excellent condition. Offered together with a companion volume by Ruskin, bound to match, and in excellent condition: 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' ('Sunnyside', Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1886, fifth edition/ 1849; quarto, [ii], xiv, 222 pages plus 14 plates featuring artwork by John Ruskin). 'When George Allen (1832-1907) joined John Ruskin's evening drawing classes at the Working Men's College in 1854, he was working as an apprentice carpenter for his uncle in Clerkenwell, London. Enthused and encouraged by Ruskin, who saw in him an "innate disposition to art," Allen declined employment with William Morris' decorative arts firm in order to devote himself to Ruskin's service, as his assistant and most reliable engraver. From 1870, he also became Ruskin's publisher, and in 1874 he built "Sunnyside," a large house in Orpington, Kent, which acted as a storage area for Ruskin's past works and future publications, up to the "Library Edition" of 1903-12 (completed by Allen's family)' (online information from an exhibition commemorating George Allen, held at Lancaster University). Provenance: Bishop Arthur Nutter Thomas (1869-1954), Anglican Bishop of Adelaide from 1906 until 1940. The front flyleaf in each volume is inscribed in ink: 'Jeremie Septuagint Prize: | December, 1892 | Arthur N. Thomas | Pemb: Coll: Camb.' The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' records that 'At Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (B.A., 1893; M.A., 1895; D.D., 1906), he gained a first in the classical tripos (1891) and won the Jeremie Septuagint (1892) and Carus Greek Testament (1893) prizes; he was also an active sportsman'. [2 items]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 141827
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