Boards very good condition gilt decorated, gilt lined edges, marks and scratches see photos. Corners very good condition gently bumped and worn. Joints very good condition gently rubbed and worn. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles and decoration, five raised gilt bands, gently rubbed, with minor marks and scratches, a little faded, Seven Lamps a slightly different shade. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. The Seven Lamps of Architecture - 1860, FIRST EDITION, viii,, 205pp, 14 plates. Vol I - 1846, THIRD EDITION, lxiii,, 422pp Vol II - 1846, FIRST EDITION, xvi, 220pp Vol III - 1856, FIRST EDITION, xix,, 348pp, Frontispiece plus plates 1-17 engravigs on steel (one in colour), tissue guard missing on plate 4 Vol IV - 1856, FIRST EDITION, xii, 411pp, Frontispiece plus plates 18-50 engravings on steel, tissue guard missing on plate 29, 30 and 45 Vol V - 1860, FIRST EDITION, xvi, 384pp, Frontispiece plus plates 51-84 plus unnumbered 85 engravings on steel, and 8 engravings on wood. The Seven Lamps of Architecture with 14 engraved illustrations. Volumes III-V each with frontispiece plus a total of 85 engravings on steel and 8 on wood, and several wood-engraved illustrations in the text by the author, J. The Seven Lamps of Architecture also a First Edition, in a slightly lighter brown morocco leather. Volume I a Third Edition Vol II to V first Editions. Internally sporadically foxed see photos. Gilt decoration to the boards, inner gilt dentelles and marbled end papers. in an elegant morocco binding, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine compartments, all page edges gilt, some marks and scratches to the leather. Six full leather bound volumes by J Ramage & Co. London: Smith Elder and Co., 1848 to 1860, First Editions (Vols II, III, IV, V and Seven Lamps) and Third Edition (Vol I).

The 7 lamps of architecture