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Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices
Title
Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices / by John Ruskin, author of "The stones of Venice" ...
Published
London : Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill; and Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, MDCCCLI [1851] (Henry Vizetelly, Printer and Engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street, London)
Physical Description
[2], 6 pages, 15 [that is 16] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 56 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Ruskin Folio 851e: No title-page. Title from front wrapper. Wrapper missing. Bookplate of H.C. von Post.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original parts; text and plates loose in printed portfolios (with cloth ties). Bookplate: 1880 Morton Kelsall Peto.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in contemporary dark green half morocco and marbled boards.
Notes
Title and imprint from original covers.
Plates by T.S. Boys, R.P. Cuff, and J.C. Armytage.
At head of cover: Subscriber's copy.
Cover: printed paper wrapper, with ornamental title printed in red and black inside ornamental frame.
Originally issued in 3 parts.
Illustrations mezzotinted, engraved and lithographed.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Wise, T.J. Ruskin, II, 304.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 174
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Mezzotints - 1851.
Lithographs - 1851.
Lithographs - Hand-colored - 1851.
Also listed under
Smith, Elder, and Co., publisher.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., publisher.
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