The King of the Golden River. Illustrated

by Arthur Rackham by John. Rackham Ruskin, Arthur

$250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Harrap, 1932. 8vo. 48pp. With 4 color plates and 15 black and white illustrations. Original printed paper boards, dust-jacket. A fine copy. § Trade edition. John Ruskin 1819-1900 , English author and artist, whose The King of the Golden River might be regarded as the first English fairy story for children. Though it was not published until 1851, seven years after Francis Paget's The Hope of the Katzekopfs, it was in fact written in 1841 for 12-year-old

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