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Available
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London, New York, J. M. Dent & co.; E. P. Dutton & co. [1907]
Description
Classic work by the great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions about the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. This authoritative edition includes reproductions of the 14 original plates of Ruskin's superb drawings of architectural details from such structures as the Doge's Palace in Venice to the Cathedral of Rouen.
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Original publication date
1849
Physical description
xxvi, 228 p.; 18 cm
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| 720.9 RUS |
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Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our
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hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, “See! this our fathers did for us.” Show Less