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Bound in blue/black cardboard covers, 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 (14.6 x 8.8 cm) 166 pp. White endpapers. Pages numbered by Ruskin 1 - 82 on white lined paper. The top of page 43 is cut away, Ruskin numbering the next three pages 43b, 43c, 43d. Page 55 also has a section cut away. Ruskin’s identification labels are pasted to the back marbled boards and are upside down. The main label states ‘Once. called . small Notebook No. 10. N. Book. 1849. In notes made in general review. Referred to as . n. minor.’ (Hewison (1978) p.58). For a time Ruskin referred to this (the smallest) notebook as the "French Book’ (Notebook M p.145L and Notebook M2 p.77, 78).
Ruskin also appears to refer to this notebook as ‘Notebook C 1849’ at Evans & Whitehouse (1956-9) 11, p.439. Ruskin indicates on the front free endpapers that the pages up to page 19 include notes on Amiens ‘made in 1849 when coming back from Swiss journey with my father and mother.’ He was at Amiens on 14th September 1849. The notebook continues with ‘notes made on a short visit to Scotland’. After a brief stop at their own rented home at Park Street to collect their mail, the couple then stayed briefly with Ruskin’s parents at Denmark Hill prior to their journey to Venice. There is a reference on the back pastedown of the notebook to ‘Venetian book Park St’ within an entry listing items to take to Venice. This suggests that the list was probably made at Denmark Hill around the last day of September / first two days of October 1849. Ruskin and Effie set out for Venice on Wednesday 3rd October 1849. The journey was as follows: ‘Dijon (Oct 6), Chamouni (Oct 17), Milan (Oct 27), Monza, Lecco (Nov 1), Verona (Nov 7) Venice’ (Works, 9.xxiv). The couple were established in their rooms at the Hotel Danieli by 13th November 1849. The notebook also includes work carried out by Ruskin on their return journey; the itinerary being: ‘Padua (March 7) [1850], Vicenza, Verona (March 11), Pavia, Cremona, Genoa, Avignon (March 31), Orange, Valence, Vienne, Lyons, Bourges (April 10). (Works, 9.xxiv). They were back at Denmark Hill on 20th April, moving to Park Street on 22nd April 1850. Sold at Sothebys 24th July 1930 Lot 115 No 8. Purchased by J. H. Whitehouse (see Woolford (1972) pp.193-246).
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]