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SESAME AND LILIES - THREE LECTURES - 1. OF KING'S TREASURIES 2. OF QUEEN'S GARDENS 3. OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.

SESAME AND LILIES - THREE LECTURES - 1. OF KING'S TREASURIES 2. OF QUEEN'S GARDENS 3. OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.

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SESAME AND LILIES - THREE LECTURES - 1. OF KING'S TREASURIES 2. OF QUEEN'S GARDENS 3. OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.

by John Ruskin

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New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1890. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 inches. xli, 179 pages. Condition is Very Good; Leather scuffed at edges and corners, splitting at top 1 inch at top of spine, a few light pencil lines in the margins, binding is tight. STK

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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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Title
SESAME AND LILIES - THREE LECTURES - 1. OF KING'S TREASURIES 2. OF QUEEN'S GARDENS 3. OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.
Author
John Ruskin
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Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
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Third edition
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1890

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