Sesame and lilies, and Unto this last / - (by) John Ruskin; Introduction by Alice Meynell.
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Creator(s)
John Ruskin, Alice Meynell, Talwin Morris, David Rodger, Blackie & Son
Code
111719
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Unsigned: bound in limp ivory white and green covers, title on cover and spine in serif capitals.
Green tree motif. The publisher's catalogue bound with this title states that each title has "individual wrappers in colour, specially drawn by H. M. Brock". Signe endpapers as on the first poetry series design on cloth: looped stems and roses in sea green on grey background (LO/C32). Bookplate on front pastedown inscribed "Norah Hume Fowler" LO/C32. From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. x, (one) leaf, 237 pages, (4)pages, frontispiece (portrait) ; 17cm.
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