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RUSKIN, JOHN. Proserpina. Studies of Wayside Flowers. Volume 1 (of 2). Engraved frontispiece and 13 flower plates by Ruskin. 8vo, cobalt blue calf by Mansell, all edges gilt, joints and edges a bit rubbed. Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1879
first edition in book form. with ruskin's presentation inscription on title: "Mary Lucy Story-Maskelyne, / with John Ruskin's love / 9th Augt. 1882." The recipient was the daughter of Ruskin's friend Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford and Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum. She later married politician Hugh Oakley Arnold-Foster and wrote a memoir of him in 1910.
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