Title:  The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Author:  by John Ruskin 
 
With illustrations drawn by the author (Black & white illustrations with plates)   
 
1890 Edition.  Full leather with gilt titles to spine. Decorative tooling. Raised bands to spine. Gilt to page edges.
Published by George Allen, 1890
 
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Format: Hardcover - Full leather binding 
Book condition:  Used - Near Fine to Fine.   Inscription (previous owner's name from 1891) to front free endpaper.  Pages are age toned.   Foxing to some of the pages. 
Cover:  Near Fine (Good).  Full leather binding.  Scratches and light rubbing to front and back cover.  Rubbing to extremities.   Full leather with gilt titles to spine. Decorative tooling. Raised bands to spine. Gilt to page edges. Tight clean copy.  Attractive copy in blue leather binding.
 
The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic and theorist John Ruskin. The 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture, which he later enlarged upon in the three-volume The Stones of Venice.  
 
The essay discussed the principles of architecture, the work being divided into seven chapters, 'sacrifice', 'truth', 'power', 'beauty', 'life', 'memory', and 'obedience'. John Ruskin was an art critic in Victorian England, being an influential figure in the art world, especially with the Pre-Raphaelites. He was greatly admired by Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and William Morris. 
 
Publisher: George Allen, London, 1890 
 
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