Author: LOUDON, J. C. [RUSKIN, JOHN]
Title: The Architectural Magazine and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building and Furnishing and in the Various Arts and Trades Connected Therewith
Description: London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. 1838, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, ix 728pp 3q calf over marbled boards, front hinge tender with armorial bookplate, bw illus in text, coloured edges, text clean and sound, includes significant articles by John Ruskin, under the pseudonym 'Kata Phusin', 'The Poetry of Architecture', in which he considers cottages, villas and other buildings in relation to their local environment and their building materials. Fair.

Keywords: architecture