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Lot 159
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
Price Realized
$325
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Lot Description
[FINE PRESS - BALLANTYNE PRESS]. RUSKIN, John (1819-1900). [Sesame and Lilies:] Of King’s Treasuries. -- Of Queen’s Gardens. London: Ballantyne Press for George Allen, 1899.
2 volumes bound in one, 8vo. Text printed in red and black, 6-line and 10-line woodcut initials printed in red, each leaf with a decorative woodcut border. Contemporary turquoise morocco, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in 2, top edge gilt, gilt stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (spine a bit toned, light rubbing to joints).
Ruskin’s classic lecture on the natures and duties of men and women.
This lot is located in Chicago.