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Title: Modern Painters Volume I (of V)

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: September 4, 2009 [EBook #29907]

Language: English

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Library Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE
SEVEN LAMPS
MODERN PAINTERS
VOLUME I

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

VOLUME II

MODERN PAINTERS

VOLUME I

MODERN PAINTERS.

BY

A GRADUATE OF OXFORD.

VOL. I.

PART I--II.

TO

THE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF ENGLAND

This Work

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THEIR SINCERE ADMIRER,

_THE AUTHOR_

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at the
shallow and false critici