MARY LUTYENS. — Millais and the Ruskins. (INSCRIBED)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Dr. H. C. Harley (who is thanked in the author's foreword) and dated the year of publication . 8vo. xiii, 296pp. Yellow cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece, sixteen plates, and six drawings in the text. A very good copy in very slightly rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with several short creases to the base of the front flap. Several related newspaper clippings laid-in, alongside a very brief note from the author (five words, including signature). The companion volume to 'Effie in Venice', detailing the lives of Effie and John Ruskin post-1852, and based on their respective correspondence. The books is perhaps most famous for the author's controversial argument that Ruskin could not consummate his marriage because he was repelled by his wife's pubic hair., Very Good, Very Good