The Works of John Ruskin on CD-ROM CD-ROM
The Works of John Ruskin on CD-ROM CD-ROM
Out of Print
At the beginning of the twentieth century one of the greatest literary editions of all time was published: Cook and Wedderburn's 'Library Edition' of The Works of John Ruskin (1903–1912). The Library Edition is a major resource for those interested in all aspects of nineteenth-century culture, including literature and economics, art and architecture, science and religion; but today the Library Edition is both expensive and difficult to obtain. Now general access to Ruskin's complete works is made possible through this attractively presented CD-ROM version. Here the reader can navigate rapidly and search accurately through the entire text (which is four times the length of the Bible) and almost 1,000 full-page plates - an incomparable teaching and research resource. This enables you to retrace the kind of movement between texts and images which characterises the associative mind of Ruskin himself - a brilliant polymath.
- All 39 volumes of the Library Edition, including an index volume
- Digitised images of all plates (including colour) and figures, which can be magnified or reduced
- Rapid search and retrieval facilities with straightforward screen commands
- All text and plates can be printed out
Reviews & endorsements
'This half ounce disk reveals more than the 1,800lb of ink used for the printed edition. Outlandish and sensitive, it is an admirable companion to Cambridge's CD-ROM of Johnson's Dictionary.' Daily Telegraph
'Cook and Wedderburn's magnificent index is supplemented by a new and extremely impressive electronic one which greatly speeds up the search process. The whole text is interrogable, and there is the concept operator which generates terms statistically related to a quest word, both of which allow means of understanding the mind of a genius in ways paper cannot provide.' Peter Davey
Product details
October 1996CD-ROM
9780521566049
0 pages
245 × 169 × 39 mm
0.358kg
Unavailable - out of print January 2001
Table of Contents
- The CD-ROM contains: • the text of all 39 volumes of The Works of John Ruskin in the Cook and Wedderburn Library Edition • more than 2,000 digitised graphic images, many in full colour • personal Librarian text retrieval software • customised interface System requirements: The CD-ROM runs on PC Windows and on Power Macintosh systems with Soft Windows software. All necessary search and display software and fonts are provided on the CD-ROM and do not need to be acquired separately. The following PC equipment is recommended:
- 80486-based PC
- Windows 3.1+
- 4Mb of RAM (8Mb preferred)
- SVGA colour monitor
- 10Mb of free hard disk space
- double-speed CD-ROM drive.
