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Reprint, Ninth edition. Hard cover 8vo, finely bound in a British Arts and Crafts style for Hatchard's in full vellum over boards tooled with gilt rule and dots intermittently around outer edges, the spine tooled in faux bands highlighted with dots with title to the uppermost compartment designed attractively with superscript o's and diagonally-placed ovoid leaves. Gilt rolled turn ins, pastel colored marbled end papers with binder's signature to bottom front turn-in: "Hatchards of Piccadilly." Top edge gilt. Printed on smooth japon-like stock by Ballantyne and Hanson, Edinburgh and London. [9], 1-276 [3] pp. including index.**CONDITION: Very Good, generally. Staining and minor soiling affects vellum, especially on boards, as seen. (See more pix on our website.) Original red silk ribbon marker laid in. Boards a little bowed. Hinges are in order and book remains square and tight. Foxing to prelims affects title page. Old Christmas gift inscription dated 1896.** These essays on political economy are transcripts of speeches by the eminent British art historian and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900). Lecture I , "Work," was delivered to the Working Men's Institute at Camberwell. The second lecture, "Traffic," was given at the Town Hall in Bradford. The third address, "War" was a lecture delivered to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1865. Lecture Four, "The Future of England," dates from 1870 and was delivered to the Royal Artillery Institution. The book also has an Appendix with "Notes on the Economies of the Kings of Prussia," and an Index. Ruskin equates the rise of democracy, poverty, anarchy, atheism and war with the demise of what he sees as the stabilizing influence of strong monarchies in firm control of the social order. First published in 1866. Watson 1347.
Ref: ECON 9402
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