Sesame and Lilies, Three Lectures.: Complete edition, Fortieth thousand.
by RUSKIN, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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About This Item
[2], xxxvi, [2], 228 pages.
Gilt titled green cloth, top edge gilt. Cloth rubbed at extremities, with small loss to corners. Very small tears to top and bottom spine. End papers a little soiled and foxed. Previous owner's ink inscription (F. E. A. Shepherd) to front free end-paper, together with 6 lines of poetry/prose. Text clean with small smudge to margin of page 46.
Good condition.
Synopsis
John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies (1865) consists of two lectures, “Of Kings’ Treasuries” and “Of Queens' Gardens,” delivered in December 1864 at the town halls at Rusholme and Manchester. While these lectures emphasize the connections between nature, art and society, they are essentially concerned with education and ideal conduct. The first half of the original work, “Of Kings’ Treasuries,” is a critique of Victorian manhood. The second half, “Of Queens' Gardens,” counsels women to be moral guides and urges parents to educate them as such. Although Sesame and Lilies was widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century.
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- Bookseller
- John Atkins (ES)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0030
- Title
- Sesame and Lilies, Three Lectures.
- Author
- RUSKIN, John
- Format/Binding
- Gilt titled green cloth, top edge gilt. Cloth rubbed at extremities, with small loss to corners. (See description for full detai
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Place of Publication
- Orpington
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Soiled
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- Foxed
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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