Rare Signed H. D. Rawnsley Ruskin and the English Lakes 1st Edition 1901

Ruskin and the English Lakes. First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By James MacLehose and Sons Glasgow 1901............... Condition and Status of The Book. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.

This copy has been Signed and Inscribed by Rawnsley on the front pastedown and the inscription reads.......' Miss Grace Wayte our last & Lamented sheet anchor at KS/A from the Chairman of the Committee & his wife Xmas 1901'' The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness, no cracking to the joints. There is some Browning/offsetting to the endpapers and some foxing is showing to the pre-lims. Complete with 10 Chapters and there are a total of 11 b&w plates including a portrait frontispiece of Ruskin, plus his study at Brantwood, the Graves of John Ruskin, Coniston Church before the Funeral, Brantwood itself and the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. Internally the text block remains nice and clean with a little staining to frontispiece, title page and bottom edge of pages 2 &3.

Very decent copy for the collector especially so given the inscription on the front pastedown. Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust, but that is not all.

He was a great advocate for the English Lake District and wrote many works on The Lakes. He was an educationalist, and animal welfare enthusiast and he also served as a Parish Priest for over 30 years and appointed a Canon of Carlisle Cathedral and an Honorary Chaplain to King George V. 8vo (X)1,243pp First Edition 1st Impression (Inscribed Copy) [1901].

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