Praeterita : Scenes and Thoughts in My Past Life (2 Volumes in 1)
New York: American Publishers Corporation, 1888 circa. Hardcover. Maroon cloth/boards; gilt lettering. 380 pp. with no illustrations. VG, clean, tight copy but for light shelf wear to covers; art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks; ownership name/date on ffep. Item #158849
"As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin’s Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary nineteenth-century critic. Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years, Praeterita tells the story of Ruskin’s early life—the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists. In abandoning the traditional linear mode of autobiography, Ruskin opened up the form and was an important influence on Proust. He also provided a vivid, detailed portrait of pre-Victorian and Victorian England that is as indispensable an account of its era as Samuel Pepys’s diary is of England in the seventeenth century." - from amazon; This edition was published between October 1887 (the date of Ruskin's last entry) and June 1900 (the date of ownership written on the end paper. From the 36-volume set of Ruskin's Works.
OCLC: 40058908
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