George Allen London 1902 Vg (fully bound in green leather with ridged spine, gilt titles and decoration on sunned spine, light edgwear and few small surface scratches on boards, all page edges are very bright gilt, quite dazzling, there is a thin gilt line along the outer edges of the boards and two gilt lines with gilt decoration at corners round the green leather around edges of endpapers, free endpapers have a brown border to the outer edges, ink ownership inscription front free endpaper, scattered spotting endpapers and light foxing prelims, pages very tight clean and bright, probably never opened) 12mo 228pp. Complete edition sixtieth thousand.

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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: lobstabooks (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 53887
Title: SESAME AND LILIES
Author: John Ruskin:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Allen London 1902
Bookseller catalogs: Antiquarian;

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