W. G. Collingwood

William Gershom Collingwood was an author, artist, antiquary and was also Professor of Fine Arts at the Reading University. For many years he worked as Ruskin's secretary, travelled with him on foreign tours, and promoted his local causes such as the setting up of Arts and Crafts Guilds. He edited a number of Ruskin's texts and published a biography of Ruskin in 1893 as well as a series of fiction books and historical texts. Collingwoods, his wife Edith and their children, Dora (later Mrs Ernest Altounyan), Barbara (later Mrs Oscar Gnosspelius), Ursula, and Robin (the later historian and philosopher) were friends with Arthur Ransome. It was a summer of teaching Collingwood's grandchildren to sail in 1928 that inspired Ransome to write Swallows and Amazons. He based the Swallows on Dora's four children (the Altounyans). Collingwood was also a skilled painter, President of the Lake Artist Society and an active member the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age by W. G. Collingwood

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Ruskin Relics by W. G [William Gershom] Collingwood, First Edition

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Roman Eskdale by R. G. Collingwood, First Edition

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Scandinavian Britain by W. [William] G. [Gershom] Collingwood and Powell F. York, First (1st) Edition

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W. G. Collingwood

The Lake Counties: With Special … Fishing, Shooting and Cycling by W. G. Collingwood and Cuthbert Rigby, First Edition

The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: The Norse … and His Contemporaries by Matthew Townend, First Edition with Dust Jacket

The Lake Counties by W. G. (Revised by William Rollinson) Collingwood and William Rollinson, Signed with Dust Jacket

Thorstein of the Mere by W. G. Collingwood, First Edition

Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age by W. G. Collingwood

Ruskin Relics by W. G [William Gershom] Collingwood, First Edition

Roman Eskdale by R. G. Collingwood, First Edition

Scandinavian Britain by W. [William] G. [Gershom] Collingwood and Powell F. York, First (1st) Edition

Thorstein of the Mere. A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland by W. G. Collingwood

Elizabethan Keswick: Extracts From … 1564-1577, Of the German Miners, In the Archives of Augsburg by W. G. Collingwood

The Bondwomen: A Saga of Langdale by W. G. Collingwood with Dust Jacket

Dutch Agnes Her Valentine: Being the Journal of the Curate of Coniston 1616 - 1623 by W. G. Collingwood