The Crown of Wild Olive, Four Lectures on Industry and War by Ruskin, John - 1882

George Allen. Good. Handwritten "1909" inside front cover. Pencil owner inscription. Top 1" of cloth missing on binding. Wear/bumped edges to binding and cover.

Sunnyside, Orpington & London: George Allen, 1899. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. contemporary gilt decorated blue leather hardcover by bumpus, 276 pages, names on lyleaf, covers rubbed and faded, otherwise very good.

London: George Allen, 1892. seventh edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 5 x 7 in. Full clue calf with stamped decorations, 5 raised bands and gilt spine titles. All sides of text block brightly gilt. Blue marbled endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; minor shelf wear, leather is supple with no cracking. Covers have a few faint spots or marks. Binding tight and text spotless. Art. RGR.

George Allen & sons, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Full burgundy leather limp covers with gilt border and gilt titles to spine. Some sunning to spine and slight rubbing to leather. 276pp. Illustration plates. Previous owners inscription to endpaper..

London: Smith, Elder & Co. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Spine scuffed and faded. Aeg. 1873. Reprint. Blue hardback leather cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 210pp. .

London, George Allen, 1902.. Octavo, vi+276pp, original half leather with decorative gilt spine in art deco syle, bookplate on frontpastedown, 1910 dated ink insciption on flyleaf, foredges foxed, otherwise a very good copy.

Sunnyside, Orpington: George Allen, 1897. Top edge gilt, others uncut. some very neat and unobtrusive pencil underlining. Written on blank prelim "Dora Carson-Roberts, 24th April 1898" and quotes from Longfellow & St. Paul, all in neat, attractive handwriting with a very thin nib. Little wear on spine & corners.. Tenth Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: George Allen , 1898. 11th edition. Nice copy. small octavo. orig. dec. cloth 276pp., index, Aeg. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy

And 156 Charing Cross Road London : George Allen Sunnyside Orpington , 1897. Hardcover The Crown of Wild Olive Four Lectures on Industry and War Tenth Edition1897 . Full Title: The Crown of Wild Olive - Four Lectures on industry and War. 276pages. The lectures include - One, Work: Lecture Two Traffic: Lecture Three War: Lecture IV The Future of England There is an appendix on The Economies of the Kings of Prussia.Green Boards with gilt lettering small mark on board from removal of old price label ex libris plate inside (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Tenth Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.

George Allen, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. small 8vo, handsomely bound by Bickers and Son in full blue calf with double gilt rule to boards and heraldic design to upper board, spine with raised bands ruled gilt and with compartments stamped in a repeat design, gilt edges boards with blind dentelles, all edges marbled and marbled endpapers, some spotting to pre-lims, a very good tightly bound copy, presentation bookplate of a previous owner to front pastedown, text clean and unmarked, 276pp.