Lectures on Architecture and Painting
by Ruskin, John
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1855. Lectures delivered at Edinburgh, November 1853. Dark green half leather boards, with gilt decorated borders to edges of leather, decoration and raised bands to spine, red title box with gilt lettering to spine, boards rubbed in places, corners bumped and chipped, light wear to spine ends and spine edges, colour closed edges and colour patterned endpapers, small bookbinder's label to foot of front pastedown, 'This book belongs to ....' label to fep, light foxing to endpapers and title page, figures 17 and 18 to frontispiece of a tiger's head and improvement of the same on Greek principles, illustrations throughout, printed in double line spacing, 240 pages clean, text clear to read, 15 plates to rear of book, binding sound.. Second Edition. Half - Leather. Good. Illus. by Ruskin, John. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74528
- Title
- Lectures on Architecture and Painting
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Illustrator
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1855
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
- Size
- 12mo
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Bookcase
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About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...