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Library Edition
THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN
POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE
SEVEN LAMPS
MODERN PAINTERS
Volume I
NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK	CHICAGO

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THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

VOLUME II

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MODERN PAINTERS

VOLUME I

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MODERN PAINTERS.

BY

A GRADUATE OF OXFORD.

VOL. I.

PART I—II.

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TO

THE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF ENGLAND

This Work

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THEIR SINCERE ADMIRER,

THE AUTHOR

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at theshallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the worksof the great living artist to whom it principally refers. It wasintended to be a short pamphlet, reprobating the matter and style ofthose critiques, and pointing out their perilous tendency, as guides ofpublic feeling. But, as point after point presented itself fordemonstration, I found myself compelled to amplify what was at first aletter to the Editor of a Review, into something very like a treatise onart, to which I was obliged to give the more consistency andcompleteness, because it advocated opinions which, to the ordinaryconnoisseur, will sound heretical. I now scarcely know whether I shouldannounce it is an Essay on Landscape Painting, an

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