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London: Smith, Elder, 1849. First edition. Illustrated, vii, [3], 205, [1], 16 [ads] pp. Royal 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, front hinge started. Liad into a quarter green 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. First edition. Illustrated, vii, [3], 205, [1], 16 [ads] pp. Royal 8vo. Inscribed at the publisher in a secretarial on the ffep "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. 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…

An extended essay, first published in May 1849, by John Ruskin on the principles of architecture.