BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE lv

The collation is: vol. i. pp. xvi.+403. The “Preface” (to the first edition) occupies pp. v.-xii.-vol. ii. pp. xv.+397. The “Preface to the Third Edition” was published as preface to this second volume (pp. v.-ix.), the autograph signature being omitted, and the following “Note by Publisher, 1886” being appended:-

* * The autograph signature of the author was accordingly appended tothe 1500 copies of the third edition. For the present issue, Plates vi., xii., xiii., xvi., xvii. and xviii. of Vol. I. and Plates iii. of Vol. III. have been newly mezzotinted by the engraver of Mr. Ruskin’s illustrations to Proserpina, The Laws of Fésole, etc. [Mr. G. Allen].

The abstract here promised of Stones of Venice, is that now sold as the Travellers’ Edition”; additional matter from which is inserted in these volumes.

vol. iii. pp. vi.+352.

Issued on July 8, 1886, in plain brown cloth boards; 2000 copies were printed, price 4 guineas the set. 220 copies on Dutch hand-made paper, with the Plates on India paper, in green cloth boards, price 8 guineas the set. In some copies the New Index (see below) was bound up with vol. iii.

The text of the Fourth Edition is that of the “New Edition,” with the additions first published in the “Travellers’ Edition” (see below). These additions are: in vol. i. Appendix 26, pp. 401-403, being “Additional Notes; from the ‘Travellers’ Edition’ of Stones of Venice.” (These are in this edition printed as footnotes to the text)-in vol. ii. Appendix 13, pp. 394-397 (notes as before)-in vol. iii. an additional “Chapter V.-Castel Franco,” Appendix 11, pp. 263-268 (notes as before), and additional notes to the Venetian Index. The other indices were omitted in view of the New Index separately published.

Many of the illustrations in the Fourth Edition were printed from new plates. In vol. i. for Plates 6, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 18, see “Note by Publisher” above. Plates 1, 5, 8 and 19, originally chromo-lithographed by T. S. Boys, were chromo-lithographed by Mr. G. Rosenthal. In vol. ii. the “Bridge of Sighs” in Fig. 37 was altered by Ruskin’s directions; an alteration first made in the “Travellers’ Edition.” In some copies the separate engravings on wood (Figs. 36 and 37) were accidentally omitted. In vol. iii. Plate 3 was newly mezzotinted by Mr. G. Allen. The “woodcuts” in all three volumes were printed from electrotypes.

Reprinted July 1893: 1250 copies were printed. Price Four Guineas, reduced July 1900 to £2, 10s.

Small complete Edition (1898).-This, except for the alteration of size and reduction of the Plates, was similar to the Fourth Edition. Issued in June 1898, crown 8vo, in cloth boards, price 10s. per volume, sold separately.

of vol. i. were printed, and 1250 of vols. ii. and iii. There remained on hand enough copies of the several volumes to make up the whole edition to 1500 (see below, p. 16). The larger number of remainder copies of vol. i. illustrates what has been said above (pp. xxxiii., xxxix.) about its comparative unpopularity. Vol. i. of this 1873 issue resembles that of 1874, except that the imprint at the foot of p. 400 reads as in the Second Edition, viz: “London: Printed by Smith, Elder, & Co., Little Green Arbour Court” (the imprint in ed. 1 being “London: Spottiswoodes & Shaw, New Street Square.”) Vols. ii. and iii. of the 1873 issue show the following variations from that of 1874: A half-title is added to each; the reverse of the title-page is blank; and the imprints (at the end of the volumes) agree with those of the second editions.

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