Beschreibung:

RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph manuscript of "Circular Respecting Memorial Studies of St. Mark's, Venice," numerous deletions and revisions, n.p., n.d. [published 1879]. 16 pages, large folio and smaller, written on the rectos only of 16 leaves, page 10 apparently in the hand of an amanuensis, each leaf neatly inlaid to a larger sheet, top of page 11 irregularly torn (affecting few words of text), bound with the printed circular [London: Strangeways & Sons, 1879] in brown morocco gilt, a.e.g., by Riviere, front cover detached. An impassioned solicitation of funds to prepare a detailed architectural record of St. Mark's, Venice, which Ruskin terms "the most precious building in Europe, standing yet in the eyes of men and the sunshine of heaven" (p.4).