Presentation Copy
The Seven Lamps of Architecture. With Illustrations Drawn and Etched by the Author.
London: Smith, Elder, 1849.
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
First edition. Illustrated, vii, [3], 205, [1], 16 [ads] pp. Royal 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped cloth. Spine ends worn, front joint cracked. Custom green quarter morocco drop box. Bookplate of John Lowe and with note to him at New College, Oxford from Pickering & Chatto that this copy was No. 244 in the exhibition Le livre Anglais – Trésors des Collections Anglaises at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1951.
Item #345954
Inscribed on the flyleaf at the publisher in a secretarial hand, "Rev D. Moore / from his friend / The Author." The Ruskins met the Reverend and Mrs. Daniel Moore in Paris during a Venice-bound continental tour in 1851, and they spent two weeks together traveling through Switzerland. Moore became minister at Camden Chapel, where the Ruskin family attended services. In 1859, during a year of turmoil, he wrote a number of anguished letters to Moore about his frustration with the Christianity of his fellow Christians.
A key text in the development of the great nineteenth-century art critic, with a resonant presentation, at the beginning of a relationship important in Ruskin's spiritual development.
