xxxiv BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Examples also. Those of importance are noted under the text, and to those a reference only is here given. The list does not include variations in setting, punctuation, or spelling, nor alterations in references caused by different pagination:-
Ch. i. § 7, line 21, for “nor” 4th and later eds. misread “not”; § 22, six lines from end, the italicising of must in this ed. is in accordance with a MS. note of Ruskin’s; § 26, five lines from end, for “lightest” (in eds. 1 and 2, and MS.), 3rd and later eds. read “slightest”; § 34, line 10, for “subject,” 4th and later eds. misread “subjects”; § 38, line 2, the earlier issues of the “Travellers’ Edition” had here a note “see Trevisan in index.”
Ch. ii. (heading in “Travellers’ Edition”) for “scornful” the earlier eds. misread “sorrowful”; (first footnote in “Travellers’ Edition”) the earlier eds. read “Portions of the chapters on the Roman and Grotesque Renaissance ...; but the text nowhere altered, unless by connecting sentences”; § 21, six lines from end, for “tints,” 5th and later eds. misread “hints”; § 27, line 15, see p. 64; § 34, thirteen lines from end, see p. 72; last line but one, see p. 73; § 44, lines 18, 19, and footnote, see p. 74; § 48, line 17, see p. 84; § 57, line 2, “west end” (in all previous eds.) was a slip for “east end”; § 97, line 14, “that fallacies” printed “the fallacies” in all previous eds.: “that” in the MS.; § 101, line 34, see p. 129.
Ch. iii. § 3, author’s note, the date 1378 (cf. § 12) has been misprinted 1738 in all previous eds.; § 16, line 10, for “This spirit,” 5th and later eds. misread “The spirit”; § 18 n., some errors in the transcription of the inscription to Capello have been corrected in this edition; “Aurlæ” (in all previous eds.) is “Auriæ,” and “MDC”, “MD”; § 33, fourth line from end, see p. 158; § 34, line 11, see p. 158; § 45, line 11, for “or feels it,” 4th and later eds. misread “or feel it”; § 47, line 2, for “this” ed. 1 reads “these”; § 52, three lines from end, see p. 173; § 63, eleventh line from end, for “continual,” 5th and later eds. misread “continued.”
Ch. iv. § 8, lines 8 and 9, brackets inserted in this ed. as marked by Ruskin in his copy for revision; § 25, last line but one, ed. 5 misreads “bow” for “bough”; § 26, line 11, see p. 217.
Epilogue, § 4, line 4, see p. 235; § 6, line 18, see p. 240.
Appendix 10 (i.) line 5, all previous eds. have referred to Plate 13 instead of Plate 12.
” 10 (iii.), p. 274, last line, ed. 1 reads correctly “limiting date,” ed. 2 and all later issues misread “limited date.”
” 10 (iv.) p. 280, thirteenth line from bottom, all previous eds. have wrongly referred to “Plate 18, Vol. I.,” instead of Vol. II.
” 10 (vi.) line 15, eds. 1-3 read correctly “shape,” 4th and later eds. misread “shade.”
Examples of the Architecture of Venice.-At the end of the footnote (*) on p. 312, ed. 1 had the following:-”In case it should be thought worth anyone’s while to examine the original drawings, I have placed a few of them at Messrs. Colnaghi’s (14 Pall Mall East). I cannot exhibit the entire series of studies for the present work, as the greater number of them are needed for constant reference in the preparation of the text.”
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