SESAME & LILIES

Ruskin, John; Wragge, Sybil [editor];

Published by J. M. Dent & Sond Ltd, London, 1937

10mo., 190 pages; VG; bound in full polished green calf, paneled spine with gilt titling and tooling, spine sun-faded brown, mild fading to edges of boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; bound b y Root, London, with their stamp; interior clean; shelved in Front Case. Contains both "Of Kings' Treasuries" and "Of Queens' Gardens", parallel texts on Victorian manhood and women as the moral guides of men.; "Sesame and Lilies (1865) would become notorious in the late 20th century as a stock example of Victorian male chauvinism. In fact, Ruskin was using the conventional construction of the feminine, as pacific, altruistic, and uncompetitive, to articulate yet another symbolic assertion of his anticapitalist social model." [Encyclopaedia Britannica]. 1329552. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1329552

Bibliographic Details

Title: SESAME & LILIES
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sond Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1937
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Reprint.