RUSKIN, John – St. mark’s rest. The history of venice, written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments

RUSKIN, John. St. mark's rest. The history of venice, written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments.

Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. George Allen, 1877-1834 First collected edition.

8vo. [2], x, 160; iv, 46; [2], x, 38, xx pp. With a half-title. Contemporary blind-tooled navy calf, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.

Art critic and social commentator John Ruskin's (1819-1900) treatise criticising unsympathetic restoration plans intended for St. Mark's, Venice. Initially issued in separate parts, this first collected edition includes the two separately published supplements; 'The shrine of the slaves. Being a guide to the principal pictures of Victor Carpaccio in Venice' (1877) and 'The place of dragons' (1879) by James Reddie Anderson.

£ 50.00 Antiquates Ref: 28710