• An open vintage book with dense black text on aged off-white pages, featuring an ornate decorative initial letter and floral border illustration.
  • The back cover of a book titled 'The Nature of Gothic' is shown resting on top of another book on a wooden surface. The white cover features black text and a barcode, with a green decorative border visible on the book underneath.
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The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin

The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin

Few books can so completely sum up an era. The Kelmscott Nature of Gothic encapsulates the meeting of two remarkable minds and embodies their influence in word, image and design. But more than that, Ruskin's words are increasingly relevant for our times. In this facsimile edition, the first ever made of this rare book, the reader can fully appreciate their importance and their legacy, as understood by one of the most potent visual imaginations to have worked in Britain.

In this enlarged edition, essays by leading scholars, Robert Hewison (who was one of Ruskin's successors as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University), Tony Pinkney (Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University) and Robert Brownell (lecturer, stained-glass maker and author of Marriage of Inconvenience) explain the importance of this book for Ruskin, for Morris and for us today.

Published by Pallas Athene

Paperback - 162 pages 

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  • An open vintage book with dense black text on aged off-white pages, featuring an ornate decorative initial letter and floral border illustration.
  • The back cover of a book titled 'The Nature of Gothic' is shown resting on top of another book on a wooden surface. The white cover features black text and a barcode, with a green decorative border visible on the book underneath.

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