The seven lamps of architecture. / By John Ruskin, ... ; with illustrations, drawn by the author.
John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Category
Books
Date
1886
Materials
Place of origin
Orpington
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085292
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xii, [4], 222 p., XIV leaves of plates ; 4to. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£3". Provenance: Late nineteenth- / twentieth-century pictorial circular bookplate (not in Franks) on front pastedown: 'Ex libris Robert et Evelyn Benson' [i.e. Robert Henry "Robin" Benson (1850-1929) m. in 1887 Evelyn Holford (1856-1943)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full vellum; gilt tooled boards and spine (rose and flower tools); four false bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The seven lamps of architecture. / Ruskin.'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; cream watered silk endleaves. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Birdsall & Son Northampton.'.
Makers and roles
John Ruskin (1819-1900). , author