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Title: The Harbours of England

Author: John Ruskin

Illustrator: J. M. W. Turner

Release Date: May 23, 2007 [EBook #21591]

Language: English

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Library Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN

STONES OF VENICE
VOLUME III

GIOTTO
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE
HARBOURS OF ENGLAND
A JOY FOREVER

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN

VOLUME X

GIOTTO AND HIS WORKS
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE
THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART
(A JOY FOREVER)

THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND 1
I. DOVER 34
II. RAMSGATE 36
III. PLYMOUTH 38
IV. CATWATER 40
V. SHEERNESS 41
VI. MARGATE 43
VII. PORTSMOUTH 46
VIII. FALMOUTH 49
IX. SIDMOUTH 51
X. WHITBY 52
XI. DEAL 54
XII. SCARBOROUGH 56

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

"Turner's _Harbors of England_," as it is generally called, is a book
which, for various reasons, has never received from readers of Mr.
Ruskin's writings the attention it deserves. True, it has always been
sought after by connoisseurs, and collectors never fail with their
eleven or twelve guineas whenever a set of Artist's Proofs of the First
Edition of 1856 comes into the market. But to the General Reader the
book with its twelve exquisitely delicate mezzotints--four of which Mr.
Ruskin has declared to be among the very finest executed by Turner from
his marine subjects--is practically unknown.

The primary reason for this neglect is not far to seek. Since 1877 no
new edition of the work has been published, and thus it has gradually
passed from public knowledge, though still regarded with lively interest
by those to whom Mr