![]() ![]() Many passages in the text are correspondingly scored or underlined, and there are also some deletions, indicating Ruskin's prudery as well as his taste for Herrick's verse. The index that Ruskin has compiled in pen and pencil over 3 of the blank end pages forms a guide to the subjects whose poetic treatment he particularly admired. As Herrick ranks among the finest of lyric poets, it is fascinating that this copy of the Hesperides should have annotations by the arbiter of 19th-century aesthetic taste. RUSKIN'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, first issue with uncancelled leaves C7, M8 and O8. ![]() Provenance: Edward Farr (contemporary inscription on blank verso of final leaf) (?)his commendation of 'The Weeping Cherry' on B4v, occasional scoring, and minor textual corrections to poems on G6r, K4v, N3r, N4 and 2B3v - JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900), with his manuscript notes, scoring and underlining in both pen and pencil, and Brantwood bookplate. (Portrait slightly affected by tiny holes and skilfully restored at blank margins, O2, O7 and T4 slightly discoloured and possibly supplied from another copy, some page numerals slightly cropped, occasional soil marks and light marginal waterstains.) Later 19th-century grained calf, sides with single gilt fillet, flat spine ruled, lettered and dated in gilt and with decoration in blind (lower joints worn). With the errata leaf, and separate title page to "His Noble Numbers" dated 1647. ![]() Engraved frontispiece portrait by William Marshall, woodcut device of a crown on title. London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648.Ģ parts in one volume, 8° (167 x 99mm). Hesperides or, The Works both humane and divine. ![]()
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