Ruskin. The King of the Golden River, The Mosher Press, Portland, Maine, 1914, 61 pp, full red leather, 7.5 x 5.5”, 12mo. 

In good condition. Beautifully bound, likely in the 1950’s-60’s, by George Baytun’s binding firm. Beautifully preserved with minor wear to extremities. Light rubbing to joints with typical edge wear. Ten small scuff marks on the rear board all in a row. One deeper indentation at proper left corner. Gilt ruling bright and clean. Spine remains lovely and presentable. All edges gilt. Gilt dentelles bright and clean. Free of ownership. Internally good with light toning, the occasional spot and minor rippling from previous humidity exposure. Binding right and intact. Very nice. Please see photos. 

A gorgeous Thomas Mosher Press Bayntun binding! Mosher is highly collectible and admired by lovers of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

“The King of the Golden River" is a delightful fairy tale told with all Ruskin's charm of style, his appreciation of mountain scenery, and with his usual insistence upon drawing a moral. None the less, it is quite unlike his other writings. All his life long his pen was busy interpreting nature and pictures and architecture, or persuading to better views those whom he believed to be in error, or arousing, with the white heat of a prophet's zeal, those whom he knew to be unawakened. There is indeed a good deal of the prophet about John Ruskin. Though essentially an interpreter with a singularly fine appreciation of beauty, no man of the nineteenth century felt more keenly that he had a mission, and none was more loyal to what he believed that mission to be.

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