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(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Ruskin, John. The King of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria.
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Ruskin, John. The King of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria. First English Edition * First American Edition. Together, 2 volumes. Illustrations by Richard Doyle. Small 8vo, English in pictorial yellow boards with early rebacking, covers scuffed, tips rubbed with loss; all edges gilt, splits after endpapers * American in gilt-pictorial red textured cloth, spine ends rubbed; all edges gilt, hinges cracked, owner's pencil signature on front endpaper; both volumes laid into cloth chemise and gilt-lettered 1/4 red morocco slipcase. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1851; Boston: Mayhew and Baker, 1860
- Notes: first english and first american editions. Part of the trend in folk tales and fairy legends of the mid-19th century, this story was so popular that it was reprinted three times within its first year. Published anonymously, the story was written ten years earlier at the request of 12-yr-old Euphemia ("Effie") Chalmers Gray, whom Ruskin would marry in 1848.
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