JOHN RUSKIN, in a fine and famous passage, describes the effect of a first view of the Alps upon a young and sensitive mind. He was at Schaffhausen with his parents. "We must have spent some time in town-seeing," he writes, "for it was drawing towards sunset when we got up to some sort of garden promenade-west of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into blue-gazing as at one of our own distances from ...
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JOHN RUSKIN, in a fine and famous passage, describes the effect of a first view of the Alps upon a young and sensitive mind. He was at Schaffhausen with his parents. "We must have spent some time in town-seeing," he writes, "for it was drawing towards sunset when we got up to some sort of garden promenade-west of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into blue-gazing as at one of our own distances from Malvern of Worcestershire, or Dorking of Kent, -suddenly-behold-beyond! There was no thought in any of us for a moment of their being clouds. They were clear as crystal, sharp on the pure horizon sky, and already tinged with rose by the sinking sun. Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed, -the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death. It is not possible to imagine, in any time of the world, a more blessed entrance into life, for a child of such a temperament as mine."
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A. D. McCormick. Good. A charming Edition de Luxe of this descriptive study of the Alps, beautifully illustrated throughout with bright colour plates. The first edition of this study of the Swiss Alps, signed by the publisher 'A. & C. Black', and no. 274 of 300 Edition de Luxe printed. A charming description of the region from English art critic, cartographer and mountaineer William Martin Conway, and illustrated in colour by illustrator and landscape painter Arthur David McCormick. With seventy colour plates, including frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with two small closed tears to back strip head. Bumping to board extremities, with light marks and rubbing to boards. Front and rear hinges starting, but holding firm. Contemporary inscription to front endpaper. Signed and numbered to verso of half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd spot. Good.
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Used-Good. Good hardback. In decorated green cloth with gilt; page top edge gilt. 70 colour plates by McCormick, complete with tissue guards (all present). Free end papers browned; hinges cracked & repaired; binding firm. page fore-edge yellowed & foxed; text & plates clean. Wear at head & foot of spine, with some wear & dulling to gilt.
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