Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

Kelmscott Press

The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin (first_page)

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The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)


Author: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900; Morris, William, 1834-1896; Kelmscott Press
Subject: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen

http://www.archive.org/details/natureofgothicch00rusk

                      Plate 11 in folio.

Examples of the Architecture of Venice’ was a folio of plates first published in 1851 in connection with Ruskin’s book on Venetian architecture, ‘The Stones of Venice.’

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