Item Detail
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Smith, Elder and Co.
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965
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Ruskin, John
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"Unto This Last": Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy
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Sm. 8vo
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original green cloth
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London
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1862
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First Edition
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[iii]-xviii, [2], 174, [2] p.
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18 cm.
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824.86 Un8s 1862
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The best known of his political works. It took more than ten years to exhaust a first edition of 1,000 copies; it was derided as 'windy hysterics,' 'a perfect paragon of blubbering' and the like, but it did not die. Indeed it lived to become the bible of the Labour Party. These essays have an interesting publishing history, from extracts sold in the streets for a penny to the eight guinea vellum treatment as purveyed by The Doves Press. After more than a hundred years the book is still in print. Fine copy.