THE BRANTWOOD DIARY OF JOHN RUSKIN: Together with Selected Related Letters and Sketches of Persons Mentioned. Edited and Annotated by Helen Gill Viljoen
Edition: First Printing
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Brown boards. Endpaper maps. pp (xviii), 632 + plates, indexed. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has spine sunning, faint sticker shadow to front panel, else fine. Covering the years 1876 -1884, it 'may be the classic account of genius observing itselff as it passes, instant by instant, into madness and then moves back, falteringly, into its own dazzling light... Included with the diary are more than 50 related letters to and from Ruskin, all previously unpublished, and detailed background sketches of all persons referred to in it." It was previously withheld from publication with his other diaries. 1.4 kg parcel.; Octavo