About this title: This is an abridgement of Rushkin's text--very intelligently and sensitively done by Jan Morris, who has herself written extensively on Venetian history.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber, London
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780571118151ISBN:0571118151
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In good dust jacket. 239p. : ill. (some col. ), facsims. (some col), port.; 29 cm. Includes index. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Description: Good. 030681286X Fast Shipping. Book torn, creased, missing dust jacket or otherwise damaged. Customer Service is our #1 priority. read more
Description: Good. 2007-Hardcover----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date Published: 1964
Description: Used-Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. We individually inspect and grade each book. Our books are professionally packaged and processed quickly. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1985-03-21
ISBN-13:9780306802447ISBN:0306802449
Description: Very Good. Were it not for a small accidental crease to lower right corner of front cover and the lightest of edgewear to covers, book could be listed as new. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Colonial Press, Boston
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Light wear to corners & spine, book is clean and tight. 432 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Merrill and Baker n.d.
Date Published: 0000
Description: Fair. Fair/no dj; hardcover, blue cloth-covered boards, silver lettering and design impressed on front cover/spine; spine is faded, spine ends are frayed, corners a bit bumped; front hinge just starting; po's name, 1894 date ffep; text block unmarked. In cludes The Quarry, The Throne, Torcello, St. Mark's, The Ducal Palace. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group, London, England
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780141390659ISBN:0141390654
Description: ARCHITECTURE. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 254 pages. Includes introduction, conclusion, & index. With b/w illustrations. Some penmarkings to pages 157-190, 225-229, 235 & to one ad page. "This abridged edition, which captures the essence of Ruskin's masterpiece, takes the reader on a marvellously descriptive and discursive tour of this glorious city. " Name of previus owner on 1/2 title page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Allen, London
Date Published: 1907
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Title page indicates "Twelfth Thousand in Small Form". Bound in 3/4 leather with gilt decoration and top edge gilt. Cover has very minor edge wear. Marbled endpapers have darkened at the edges due to contact with the leather.; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 397 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780918825131ISBN:091882513X
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Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: George Allen, London
Date Published: 1900
ISBN-13:9781421244051ISBN:1421244055
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by George Allen in London, 1900. This book is in English. This book contains 222 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780306802447ISBN:0306802449
Description: Good. D. Very Nice paperback. No spine crease. Only slight bumping and rubbing. Text is clean, unmarked, tight. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 2003-07-09
ISBN-13:9780306812866ISBN:030681286X
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780306812866. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, New York
Date Published: 1875
Description: Acceptable. No Jacket. Historical. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book: Acceptable. Cover damaged. Ex-library book. No jacket. 375 pages clean and bright, binding tight. "I trust that the reader has been enabled, by the preceeding chapters, to form some conception of the magnificence of the streets of Venice during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Yet by all this magnificence she was not supremely distinguished above the other cities of the middle ages..." read more
"I learned a great deal through Ruskin's method in visually taking apart a building or structure, separating beauty and power, loads and supports. The way he embraced Lombard architectural methods and traditions as well as Islamic ones in appreciating the Stones of Venice was liberating in a curious way when coming from such a Catholic Victorian art prude."
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