Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864
by Ruskin, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Ex-lib, lacks front free endpaper, VG
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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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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- Seller
- The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 239
- Title
- Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Gilt decorated brown cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Ex-lib, lacks front free endpaper, VG
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Wiley
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1865
- Pages
- 119pp.
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- 1st Editions, First Editions, 19th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism, Essays
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The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...