RUSKIN, JOHN 1819-1900. — The Two Paths: Being Lectures On Art And Its Application To Decoration And Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-1859. By John Ruskin...With Two Plates.

London : Smith, Elder And Co, 65, Cornhill, 1859 . 0. First edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. pp.x/[2pp.]/pp.271/[1p.] + 2 plates. Brown calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and original brown leather title label. Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. Interesting booksellers label to verso of the front board: "Dawson Bros, 23 Great St. James Street, Montreal." Armorial bookplate to front endpaper: "Frederick Mc. C. Jowitt." with motto: "Animo Et Prudentia" ( With courage and prudence). * Referenced by: Wise, T.J. Complete bibliography of the writings in prose and verse of John Ruskin 90. ** "Frederick McCulloch Jowitt (1868–1921). Frederick McCulloch Jowitt was born on 26 April 1868 in Leeds, Yorkshire, his father, Robert, was 29 and his mother, Caroline, was 24. He married Helen Dorothea Benson on 22 August 1900 in Cardinal, Ontario, Canada. They had three children during their marriage. He died on 19 September 1921 in Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire, at the age of 53, and was buried there.. Frederick McCulloch Jowitt of Hollins Hall. Mr Jowitt was a Wool merchant and Top maker and a substantial landowner, living in what was until recent years the most notable residence in Hampsthwaite.." - See Hampsthwaite Village. *** Contents include: Lecture I : the deteriorative power of conventional art over nations. -- Lecture II : the unity of art. -- Lecture III : modern manufacture and design. -- Lecture IV : the influence of imagination in architecture. -- Lecture V : the work of iron, in Nature, art, and policy. *** Summary: John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.