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Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices / by John Ruskin.

Accession number
PML 146721
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Published
London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1851.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Issued in 3 parts.
Title from part 1.
A supplemental "detached work" intended to accompany Ruskin's The stones of Venice (London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1851-1853).
Preface, descriptions of the plates (6 p.), and 16 plates numbered 1 to 15, with no. 6 being numbered 15B.; etchings, engravings, lithographs, and mezzotints after Ruskin.
Plates include engravings by R.P. Cuff and J.C. Armytage, tinted and b&w lithographs by T.S. Boys (some of them partly colored by hand), and 4 mezzotints etched by T.S. Boys and mezzotinted by Thomas Lupton (3) and S. Reynolds (1); all after Ruskin.
Library's copy lacks the original publisher's portfolios and part wrappers containing the printed title and publication information.
Description
6 p., 15 [i.e. 16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 56 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Gerald Sanville; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 red calf.
Classification
Department