1900 STONES OF VENICE JOHN RUSKIN 3VL SET VELLUM ARCHITECTURE ITALY GOTHIC ART

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THE STONES OF VENICE
1900; John Ruskin;
10th Thousand in Small Form
; London, George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington;
Vellum
; Illustrated by Author; Each About 400 Pages; w5.3"xh7.8";
Rare!
ATTRIBUTES:
Three Beautiful blue cloth cover designs with Vellum bindings/corners, gold pinstriped borders, pretty gold floral bindings with red petals and dark green upper leather labels, gold tops of pages, marble end pages, one lovely color frontispiece, 53 wonderful plates (some in color) and a Great Read;
Complete in Three Volumes!
SUMMARY:
The Stones of Venice
is a three-volume treatise on
Venetian
art and
architecture
by English art historian
John Ruskin
, first published from 1851 to 1853.
The Stones of Venice
examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. Ruskin discusses architecture of Venice's
Byzantine
,
Gothic
, and
Renaissance
periods, and provides a general history of the city.
John Ruskin
(8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher and art critic of the
Victorian era
. He wrote on subjects as varied as
geology
,
architecture
, myth,
ornithology
,
literature
,
education
,
botany
and
political economy
.
CONDITION:
Conditions are Good+/Very Good. Some wear usual soiling to vellum/more on one spine, bookplate to each, spotting to extreme edges, few minor blemishes, pages are very good, hinges/text blocks are excellent!
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