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On the Old Road. A collection of miscellaneous Essays, Pamphlets, &c, &c, published 1834-1885

John Ruskin · 1885 · Scanned text

100,111 words · about 7 h 1 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Language
English
Published
1885
Length
100,111 words · about 7 h 1 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Part I. Introductory under 1 min
  2. Part II. Page IV about 4 h 10 min
  3. Preface about 2 h 50 min
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Part I. Introductory

MY FIRST EDITOR. 1878 3 ART. I. HISTORY AND CRITICISM. Lord Lindsay's "Christian Art." 1847 . 21 Eastlake's "History of Oil Painting." 1848 • . - • .133 Samuel Prout. 1849 206 Sir Joshua and Holbein. 1860 . . .221 II. PRE-RAPHAELITISM. Its Principles, and Turner. 1851 . . 239 Its Three Colours. 1878 310 III. ARCHITECTURE. The Opening of the Crystal Palace. 1854 349 The Study of Architecture in our Schools. 1865 VI CONTENTS.

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