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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
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" ...
Published/Created:
London : Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill; and Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:
[2], 6 pages, 15 [that is 16] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 56 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 15 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 15 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3343075
Classification:
Books
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.
Form/Genre:
Mezzotints -- 1851.
Lithographs -- 1851.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1851.
Contributors:
Smith, Elder, and Co., publisher.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., publisher.
Vizetelly, Henry, 1820–1894, printer.
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803–1874, engraver, lithographer.
Cuff, R. Parminster, 1819–1883, lithographer.
Armytage, James Charles, 1802–1897, lithographer.
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