Excerpt from The Roycroft Books: A Catalog and Some Comment Concerning the Shop and Workers at East Aurora, N. Y., A. D. 1900 The king OF the golden river By John Ruskin You know the story of how Ruskin wrote this tale for a beautiful little girl - and you know who this little girl was! All written in love and therefore vital, potent charged with meaning. The book-making part was a labor of love, too. Frontispiece photo gravure portrait of the author on Chinese paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.