London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill, Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-Street-Square [through 1853], 1851. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Three First Impressions, complete in the publisher's original matched bindings, of Ruskin's exhaustive examination of Venetian architecture of the Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods. Royal 8vo (257 x 164mm): xvi,413,[1],16[catalogue dated June..... more