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Beautifully Bound Antique Hardback Book Crown of Wild Olives John Ruskin First Edition Collectable

Beautifully Bound Antique Hardback Book Crown of Wild Olives John Ruskin First Edition Collectable

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Antique Hardback Book a Crown of Wild Olives 1st Edition with beautiful cloth cover decorated with a bough of blossoms. Nice Scarce copy of a book of four lectures by this famous philosophical writer of the 19th century whose life was entwined with some of the most important figures of the day.

The book has a black and white frontispiece showing a portrait of the author John Ruskin M.A. the contents are entitled: Four Lectures on Work, Traffic, War and the Future of England.

The lectures are scattered with anecdotes which give a picture of life in the 19th Century and the void between the classes and the trials and tribulations of society.

To Quote Ruskin: " We may take care that working-men shall have at least as good books to read as anyone else when they've time to read them; and as comfortable firesides to sit at as anybody else when they've time to sit at them..."

An interesting book that encapsulates the zeitgeist of the era. A pretty Antique Hardback Book that would look lovely as part of your personal collection!

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