The Seven Lamps of Architecture

First edition, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., May 1849, imperial 8vo, collating viii, [1, errata slip], [4], 205, [1], [16pp of advertisements including an advertisement slip for The Stones of Venice dated 1849]. Illustrated with fourteen plates etched by Ruskin himself (two of them bitten in Dijon during his honeymoon), plus a hand-colored plan of Exeter Cathedral, all with tissue guards, and a tipped-in errata slip -- this is the only issue to carry Ruskin's own etched plates rather than the re-engraved substitutes used in later editions