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THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND
THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND

THE STONES OF VENICE 1873-74 JOHN RUSKIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, LEATHER BOUND

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[RUSKIN, JOHN]. The Stones of Venice. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873-1874.

New edition - signed limited edition, one of 1,500 sets signed by the author at the end of the new preface. Complete in three volumes; leather-bound; hardcover; large octavo (26.5cm x 17.5cm); pp. xxi, [1], 400; vi, [2], 394; [4], 362. English text. Bound in exquisite contemporary full morocco gilt; a.g.e.; marbled endpapers; with 53 plates, including 5 chromolithographs by William Dickes, all after Ruskin, by Thomas Lupton, J. C. Armytage, R. P. Cuff, and others; further illustrations in the text; printed footnotes; appendices. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints perfectly intact. Covers beautifully preserved with the faintest hint of rubbing to the points. The interiors largely fresh and clean with some very faint foxing to endpapers and some plates. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.

Notes: This key text of the aesthetic movements was first published from 1851 to 1853. Its "obsession with the function and aesthetics of architecture, over and beyond its history and practice, again proved a revolutionary success" (PMM). The work's importance lies "in its celebration of the Byzantine and the Gothic, which had an immediate effect on Victorian architects, who began to introduce Romanesque forms and Venetian and Veronese colour and sculptural features into their designs" (ODNB). The most famous chapter, "The Nature of Gothic" (II, pp. 151-231), was twice separately reprinted in the author's lifetime, firstly for the inaguaration of the London Working Men's College in 1854, secondly by William Morris in 1892. In this chapter, "Ruskin argued that under conditions of industrialization and the division of labour, social disharmony and industrial unrest were bound to occur, because the previously expressive craftsman - Ruskin's ideal working man - had been reduced to the condition of a machine" (ODNB). Grolier English 100, 92 (for first edition); Printing and the Mind of Man 315 (for Ruskin).
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