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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
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Aikin, John, 1747–1822
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
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Cumberland, Richard, 1732–1811
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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731–1802
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Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
1
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
1
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752–1821
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Member of the Save-all Club
1
Murry, Ann
1
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304–1374
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Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
1
Stubbes, George, 1682 or 1683–
1
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862
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1490
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1926
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
22
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Books
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unknown
22
Period
19th century
13
18th century
6
20th century
2
15th century
1
Work Type
wood engraving
4
chromolithograph
3
juvenile work
3
private press books (publishing)
2
aquatint
1
binders' tickets (binding)
1
chromoxylograph
1
copy books (penmanship)
1
fragments (object portions)
1
incunabula
1
maxim
1
poem
1
poetry
1
publisher's advertisement
1
writing book
1
Subject Terms
Conduct of life.
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Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.
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Smith, Elder & Co. -- Publisher.
2
Aesthetics.
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Allen, George -- Publisher.
1
Amusements.
1
Autographs -- Specimens.
1
Books and reading.
1
Boys, Thomas -- Publisher.
1
Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile literature.
1
Brothers and sisters.
1
Browne, J. -- Printer.
1
Burn -- Binding.
1
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801–1866 -- Presentation inscription from J. Ruskin.
1
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881 -- Bookplate.
1
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492 -- Anniversaries, etc.
1
Children -- Conduct of life.
1
Christian life.
1
Clay (R.), Son, and Taylor -- Printer.
1
Conduct of life -- Juvenile poetry.
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19th century
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Great Britain
3
Bath (England)
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Derby (England)
1
England
1
Liverpool (England)
1
London
1
Waltham Saint Lawrence
1
Associated People
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
1
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
1
Exhibition History
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Language
English
21
Latin
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Some rules for the conduct of life ..
1877
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Darwin, Erasmus, 1731–1802
A plan for the conduct of female education
1797
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Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
The ethics of the dust
1866
4
Cumberland, Richard, 1732–1811
The observer
1808
5
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Letter to young girls
[1876]
6
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world
[1790]
7
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Sesame and lilies
1865
8
The Toy merchant
1884
9
Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
The economy of human life
[1799]
10
Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Letters from a father to his son,
1794
11
Stubbes, George, 1682 or 1683–
A dialogue in the manner of Plato,
1734
12
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752–1821
Essays moral and literary
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
13
The traveller's guide
1870?]
14
Murry, Ann
Mentorian lectures,
1808
15
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Memoires for my grand-son
1926
16
Member of the Save-all Club
Lessons of thrift
1820
17
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
18
The kind uncle and his dog Ganges
1828
19
The farmer and his family
[approximately 1895?]
20
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862
Where I lived & what I lived for
1924
21
Goody Two-Shoes
[1888]
22
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304–1374
De remediis utriusque fortunae
approximately 1490