The Seven Lamps of Architecture

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Includes 14 plates, illustrated by the author. An extended essay first published in 1849 about the Gothic Revival in architecture. This widely popular book in it's day captured and summarized the main points of the movement. The seven lamps represent the demands that architecture must meet: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience. Ruskin later expanded this essay into a three-volume book titled "Stones of Venice."

Bound in three-quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands and leather title / author labels (truncated) to spine. Wear and pulling to leather along joints and corners. Minor wear to edges of boards. Marbled endpapers and full edges gilt. Medium foxing to first and last few pages with occasional small spots of foxing and soiling throughout, else clean and bright. Professional paper repair to margin of page 9/10. An attractive book. 205 pages. ARCH/050625. (Inventory #: 37903)