Description | Comprising: student album with title page ‘Mary C Evason with love from the Five-ites 1888’, with entries including college cohort names, poems and illustrations spaning 1883 – 1907; copy of John Ruskin's 'Sesame and Lilies' (with envelope pasted into the back addressed to Rev J P Faunthorpe, postmarked Ambleside and likely in Ruskin’s hand); copy of Ruskin’s ‘Munera Pulveris’ given as an 1884 May Day prize with bookplate dedicated to Mary Evason ‘for she is a good French Scholar’, signed by Faunthorpe, Ruskin and May Queen Minnie Griffiths. |