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III., pp. 5-6, Plates 11-15.¹ Other Parts were intended by the author, but no more were published. The Parts were put up in grey paper wrappers, with the above title (printed in ornamental red and black letters) on the front, enclosed in a frame with designs at the corners. Below the frame, is the imprint: “Henry Vizetelly, Printer and Engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street, London.” Above the frame in the India paper copies are the words: “Subscriber’s Copy”; and below it in all copies. On p. 4 of the wrapper were the contents of each part. Price, One Guinea each Part; fifty India Proofs at Two Guineas each Part. A set of the latter has sold in the auction rooms during recent years for £32.

The names of the original engravers appear on the reproductions in this edition. Plates 9 and 12 were coloured, and Plates 8 and 15 partly coloured, by hand.

Second Edition (1887).-The title-page is as follows:-

Examples | of the | Architecture of Venice | Selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices. | By | John Ruskin, | Author of “The Stones of Venice,” “The Seven Lamps of Architecture,” | “Modern Painters,” etc. | George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. | MDCCCLXXXVII.

Atlas folio, pp. xi.+16 leaves (descriptions of the Plates, facing them severally). The Original Advice occupies pp. v., vi. (here p. 313 n.); Preface to the First Edition, p. viii. (here p. 311); Contents, p. xi. (here p. 315). Issued on March 14, 1887, unbound, in a cloth cover; price Three Guineas. 1000 copies were printed; also 250 copies printed on Whatman’s hand-made paper, with the Plates on India, paper, price Six Guineas. The Proofs were issued in green cloth cases; the ordinary copies in brown cloth.

The Publisher’s Advertisement stated: “The original Plates, engraved by Messrs. Lupton, Reynolds, Armytage, and Cuff, from drawings by Mr. Ruskin, are in good condition, having had comparatively few impressions taken from them for the first and only other edition in 1851. The lithographs have been carefully reproduced.” The reproductions (of Plates 3,4, 9, 12, 14, and 15) were by Mr. G. Rosenthal.

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Variæ Lectiones.-The following is a list of various readings shown by a collation of all the editions of The Stones of Venice, vol. iii., and of the

¹The following letter (reprinted from the privately-printed volume of Letters upon Subjects of General Interest from John Ruskin to Various Correspondents, 1892) refers to the arrangement of the letterpress:-

“August 3rd, 1851.-DEAR MR. SMITH,-We at first thought of running these large plate notices straight on; but it seems to me that after saying ‘each number will be complete in itself,’ we can hardly do this, as I have not put in any of Plate II. to fill the gap-but you can if you think it better. The MS. of next number will be with you to-morrow morning. I want a revise of this, and of Pre-Raphaelitism from the beginning. Ever faithfully yours, J. RUSKIN.”

This, however, appears to have been somewhat inaccurately printed, and should read, “so I have not put in any of Plate 11;” a reference to the original edition showing a blank space or gap at the bottom of page 4 of the letterpress descriptive of Plates 6-10 (issued with Part ii.). The publisher did not fill in this gap, so that the description of Plates 11-15 began on a fresh page (issued with Part iii.).

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