Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures By John Ruskin (3rd American Ed.)
by Ruskin, John
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1890. Third American Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xli, 179 pp. The fore-corners of the covers are bumped. The cover edges are scuffed. Light pencil underlining and marginalia on c. 10 pages. The binding is tight and square. Gilt upper page edges.
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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- Title
- Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures By John Ruskin (3rd American Ed.)
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Essays
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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