111 pp. Color frontispice and plates, and woodcut illustrations, by Fritz Kredel. Introduction by May Lamberton Becker. Originally written in 1841 for the twelve-year-old Effie (Euphemia) Gray, whom Ruskin later married. It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early Victorian classic which sold out three editions... it illustrates the triumph of love, kindness, and goodness over evil; however, it could also be characterized as a fable, a fabricated origin myth and a parable.
