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RUSKIN, JOHN The Stones of Venice: The Foundations. The Sea-Stories. The Fall. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1851-1853. First editions. Three volumes, original brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind, housed in handsome morocco-backed pull-off cases by Mounteney. 10 1/8 x 7 inches (25.5 x 17.5 cm); xiv, 413, [1], 16 pp. publisher's ads dated June, 1855; viii, 394, 16 pp. ads dated March, 1854; iv, 362 pp., 16 pp. ads dated March 1854; with illustrations drawn by the author, plates (some colored), errata slip with three corrections in volume I. Tear to first page of the last set of ads, but in almost every regard a nonpareil set, looking much as it did on the day of publication. With the Harold Greenhill bookplate, the H. Bradley Martin bookplate laid-in. This was in the Bradley Martin sale, May 1, 1990, hammer $2,250. C From the Collection of Walter Ward Jr.