A Joy For Ever: (And Its Price in the Market) Contributor(s): Ruskin, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798678022516 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Antiques & Collectibles | Art |
Dewey: 330.1 |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "The title of this book, -or, more accurately, of its subject;-for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains, -will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats by the good folks of Manchester, to be writ-ten in letters of gold on the cornice, or Holy rood, of the great Exhibition which inaugurated the ca-reer of so many, -since organized, by both for-eign governments and our own, to encourage the production of works of art, which the producing nations, so far from intending to be their "joy for ever," only hope to sell as soon as possibl |