Ruskin adds his name to those protesting the arrival of railways
Robert Somervell’s A Protest against the Extension of Railways in the Lake District, published in Windermere in 1876, contains “articles thereon reprinted from the Saturday Review etc.”, and a nine page preface by one of those who objected to the intrusion of the railways into the Lake District – John Ruskin.
Though part of the upper wrapper remained, the copy offered in Carlisle was effectively disbound, bu…