John Ruskin
Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy, 1907
Hammersmith: Doves Press
One of 300 copies.
2080
Octavo. (xiv), (122) pp. Text is based on the first edition, published in 1862. Ruskin, in Sesame and Lilies, called this 'The only book, properly to be called a book,...
Octavo. (xiv), (122) pp. Text is based on the first edition, published in 1862. Ruskin, in Sesame and Lilies, called this "The only book, properly to be called a book, that I have ever yet written myself, the one that will stand ... surest and longest of all work of mine" (quoted in Wise, Bibliography, p. 110). Typical cockling to pastedowns, else fine in full limp vellum, title in gilt on spine. (Tidcombe 11).
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