[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED John Ruskin THE STONES OF VENICE, 1874

[Charles Agvent]

RUSKIN, John. THE STONES OF VENICE. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874. 
New Edition. Three large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") volumes in the 
publisher's brown blindstamped and gilt-decorated cloth. One of 1500 
copies SIGNED by the author at the end of the preface. Illustrated with 
62 plates, many in color, and drawings in the text by the author. First 
published about 20 years before this attractive, SIGNED edition, it is 
one of the key texts of the aesthetic movement. Early bookplate of 
American architect Joseph Prince Loud, Architect (1865-1942) on the 
front pastedown of each volume. Contents fresh and clean; hinges sound, 
tightly bound. Cloth also bright and clean with some fraying along spine 
edges and tips. Near Fine set and increasingly uncommon as such. 
(#021249)        $850

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