A PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR BY ARTHUR SEVERN, WHO HAD BEEN JOHN RUSKIN’S ALMOST CONSTANT COMPANION
FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE
RUSKIN, John – James S. DEARDEN (ed.). The Professor. Arthur Severn’s Memoir of John Ruskin. London: Unwin Brothers Limited, The Gresham Press for George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967.
Octavo (196 x 126mm), pp. 158, [1 (colophon)], [1 (publisher’s advertisement)]. Half-tone portrait frontispiece after Arthur Severn, 2 half-tone plates with illustrations after Severn, Ruskin, T. Blake Wirgman, et al. recto-and-verso, and illustrations in the text after Ruskin, Severn, and Laurence Hilliard, one full-page. Original red boards, spine lettered in black, dustwrapper, not price-clipped. (Minimally rubbed and bumped at extremities, slight browning on hinges, dustwrapper slightly rubbed at edges, slightly faded on spine and part of lower panel.) A very good, clean copy.
First edition. The Professor ‘contains various reminiscences of [John Ruskin] by Arthur Severn and deals in detail with such events as Ruskin’s illness at Matlock in 1871, the tour of Italy in 1872 and the 1876 posting tour from London to Coniston in the Lake District. It also contains accounts of a number of Ruskin’s social experiments such as his tea shop in Paddington and his efforts to clean London’s streets. The author of the memoir, Arthur Severn, was married to a distant cousin of Ruskin and the couple were Ruskin’s almost constant companions for the final thirty years of his life’ (dustwrapper blurb).
The Professor was edited for publication by the noted Ruskin scholar James S. Dearden, using Severn’s manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester and the collection of Margaret, Countess of Birkenhead.
£19.50
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