The Seven Lamps of Architecture
F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
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Printing Details
Reprint (Seventh edition in small form). Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 13cm, xv + 444pp.
This copy belonged to Marxist art historian and exponent of Kunstsoziologie Francis Donald Klingender (better known as F D Klingender), with his bookplate to the front pastedown.
John Ruskin's extended essay, first published in May 1849 in which the 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture: Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience. Ruskin argued from a moral stance that the technical innovations of architecture since the Renaissance and particularly the Industrial Revolution, had subsumed its spiritual content and sapped its vitality. Illustrated with 14 plates, drawn by Ruskin.
Condition
A reading copy only as the cloth is rubbed, the plates (all present) have a waterstain to the top edge, and the book is in generally well-read condition. However, this copy comes with an interesting provenance.
Price
£40.00
