The stones of Venice
John Ruskin's architectural treatise on Venetian building, written 1851 and issued in this American edition by Estes and Lauriat of Boston for readers studying Gothic construction and ornament. The plates are hard-line engraved diagrams of arch construction \u2014 lettered voussoirs, lintels, gable and cusped arch profiles ranked in grids, and small elevations of two-bay arcades in solid black and outline \u2014 offering designers clean geometric silhouettes and keyed technical figures.
