Good. Cover and pages clean. Binding is good, interior cracking-one location, but solid. Spine worn top and bottom.

The King of the Golden River is a fantasy story originally written in 1841 by John Ruskin for Effie (Euphemia) Gray, whom Ruskin later married.^[1] It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early Victorian classic which sold out three editions. In the "Advertisement to the First Edition", which prefaces it, it is called a fairy tale, one, it might be added, that illustrates the triumph of love, kindness, and goodness over evil; however, it could also be characterised as a fable, a fabricated origin myth and a parable. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1932. There are four full-color illustrations, multiple monochromatic vignettes, and fanciful endpapers (colored).