Description: The Stones of Venice. Plates. By John Ruskin, Author of "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," "Modern Painters," Etc., Etc., New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1880, 378 pp, 9.5 x 6.5", 8vo. In good condition. Typical wear to extremities. General scuffing to boards. Edges are rubbed and corners bumped. Gilt lettering and motifs bright and clean. Head and tail of spine collapsed. Front gutter beginning to split at tail, binding mesh exposed. Previous ownership plate on front paste-down: Maurice Robert des Marais. Text-block clean, no known marginalia. Water dampness stain on top edge of text. All plates present and with their tissue guards. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic, and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany, and political economy. Ruskin was greatly influenced by the extensive and privileged travels he enjoyed in his childhood. It helped to establish his taste and augmented his education. He sometimes accompanied his father on visits to business clients at their country houses, which exposed him to English landscapes, architecture and paintings. The Stones of Venice develops from a technical history of Venetian architecture from the Romanesque to the Renaissance, into a broad cultural history. FORN-MSB-0723-0740-HK446
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Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Topic: Architecture
Subject: Art
Original/Facsimile: Original
