Book Description

8vo. First edition thus. Original full vellum, gilt, with cloth ties. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Printed in black, with floral decorative borders, and red initials, by the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. Mottling to covers. Slight foxing to endpapers. Pages mostly unopened. Very good +.
Dealer Notes
One of two lectures delivered by John Ruskin in December 1864 and published together as Sesame and Lilies in 1865. This volume is his critique of Victorian manhood.
Author Ruskin, John
Date 1902
Publisher London, George Allen

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