Bibliographical Note.-The bibliography of The Stones of Venice falls under three heads, dealing respectively with (1) editions of separate volumes, (2) editions of the whole work, (3) editions of the “Travellers’ Edition” selected from it. The separate editions of the other volumes will be dealt with in each of them.

SEPARATE EDITIONS OF VOLUME 1

Volume I.-First Edition (1851).-The title-page (enclosed in a plain ruled frame) is as follows:-

The Stones of Venice | Volume the First | The Foundations. | By John Ruskin, | Author of “The Seven Lamps of Architecture,” “Modern Painters,” | etc. etc. | With Illustrations drawn by the Author. | London: | Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill. | 1851.

Imperial 8vo, pp. xvi.+413. The Preface (here, pp. 3-10) occupied pp. v.-xii.; Contents (here pp. ix., x.), pp. xiii.-xv.; List of Plates (here p. xiii.), p. xvi. Each chapter is headed throughout with its number and title; pp. 52-204 (here pp. 80-252) are also further headed “Construction,” and pp. 205-338 (here pp. 254-405) “Decoration”; this arrangement, followed in succeeding editions, is preserved here. At the end of the book are 2 pages containing an advertisement of Examples of the Architecture of Venice: this is here reprinted in vol. iii. of the Stones. Issued on March 3, 1851, in dark brown cloth boards (see facsimile opposite next page). Price Two Guineas. In later copies the following slip of “Errata” was inserted:-

Page 89, line 11 from bottom, for c₂ read b₃.

” 297, line 15 from bottom, for roof read root.

” 384, line 3 from bottom, “olive shade” should not be in italics.

Of these errata, however, the first and the third passed uncorrected until the present edition; the second was corrected in ed. 2.

Sets of the first edition of The Stones of Venice (vol. i. 1851, vols. ii. and iii. 1853) have been sold in the auction-rooms during recent years at prices ranging, according to condition, etc., from Ł16, 15s. (1886) to Ł7, 12s. 6d. (1891).

Second Edition (1858).-Title-page the same as before, except for change of date and the words “Second Edition” above publisher’s imprint, Imperial 8vo, pp. xvi.+400; the reduction in the number of pages being due to omissions from the Appendix. Issued on September 1, 1858. Price and binding as before. The text was slightly revised, and the Appendix was abridged (see under “Varić Lectiones” below). Different stones were used for the lithograph plates. The drawing is sometimes better, being less hard, but the colouring much worse, than in ed. 1.

These two are the only editions of Volume I. published separately.

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