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Title(s)
Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices / by John Ruskin, author of "The stones of Venice" ...
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Published/Created
London : Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill; and Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, MDCCCLI [1851]
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Physical Description
[2], 6 pages, 15 [that is 16] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 56 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 15 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 15 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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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.
Wise, T.J. Ruskin, II, 304.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 174
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. -
Subject Terms
Architecture -- Details. | Architecture -- Italy -- Venice. | Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Italy -- Venice. | Peto, Morton Kelsall -- Bookplate. | Post, H. C. von -- Bookplate. | Ruskin, John, 1819–1900. Stones of Venice. | Venice (Italy) -- Art and architecture. | Venice (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works. | Venice (Italy) -- Pictorial works.
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Form/Genre
Lithographs -- 1851. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1851. | Mezzotints -- 1851.
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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