The Works of John Ruskin Hardcover - Vol. 1 - 1891 - marbled + blue leather

Rare edition of The Works of John Ruskin Hardcover - Vol. 1 - Sesame and Lilies - 1891 - marbled + blue leather with gold accented pages. Good condition, some wear on the cover, see pics. Cool Victorian era marbled book. John Ruskin was an “English writer, critic, and artist who championed the Gothic Revival movement in architecture and the decorative arts and had a strong influence upon public taste in art in Victorian England” (Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature). His major works include Modern Painters (1843-1860), The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), The Stones of Venice (1851-1853), Lectures on Architecture and Painting (1854), The Political Economy of Art (1857), Unto This Last (1862), Essays on Political Economy (1862-1863, later Munera Pulveris, 1872), Sesame and Lilies (1865), and Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1871-1884). His story The King of the Golden River (1851) was one of the earliest English fantasies for children.