Unto This Last

1893, Ruskin's essays on Policital Economy in a simple Arts and Crafts leather binding

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Printing Details

Ninth edition. Hardback, rebound in Arts and Crafts style in full leather with stylised titling blindstamped to pine and upper board. Top edge gilt. 17.5 × 11cm, 199pp.

Unto this Last is an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, and also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement and here his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization are strangely prophetic.

Condition

Good. The leather is rubbed and faded to the spine. There is a little corner creasing to a few of the pages and a previous owner has written his name to the title page. Otherwise, the book remains in strong readable condition.

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