BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 9

The Editorial Note, after giving some of the bibliographical particulars detailed above, and explaining the substitution of the process blocks for the woodcuts, continues:-

“For another reason the present edition is more complete than the old one. The publications of the Arundel Society contain no woodcuts of-and only a bare reference to-the frescoes of ‘Christ in Glory,’ ‘The Last Judgment,’ and the fourteen Virtues and Vices. These are all now reproduced, the ‘Christ in Glory’ as a frontispiece [see now p. 113] and the rest in an Appendix, together with a brief explanatory notice of each fresco, as given by Lord Lindsay in his Christian Art, and by Mr. Ruskin himself either in the Stones of Venice, or, later, in Fors Clavigera and Val d’ Arno. It is, therefore, hoped that this volume is a complete and worthy record of the chapel which has been described as ‘not only the most perfect expressional work, but the prettiest piece of wall decoration and fair colour in North Italy.’|”*

A full index was also added.

Pocket Edition (1905).-This was printed from electrotype plates of the edition last described, with the following new title-page:-

Giotto and his Works | in Padua | By | John Ruskin | London: George Allen.

Issued in March 1905, uniform with other volumes in the Pocket Edition (see Vol. XV. p. 6). 4000 copies. Price 3s. 6d. The edition is still current.

There have been unauthorised American editions, generally in volumes of “Miscellanea” made up of Ruskin’s shorter works.

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Reviews of the first part of the original issue of the work appeared in (among other places) the Athenćum, December 2, 1854, and the Illustrated London News, December 9, 1854.

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Varić Lectiones.-There are few variations to record, other than those already indicated. In § 1, line 4, “Delesmanini” is corrected to “Dalesmanini.” In Subject XIX., line 48, “rendered” was misprinted “rendering” in the small editions. In XXX., in line 4 of the note of 1899, “profile” was misprinted “people.” In XXXIV., “Cassano” is corrected to “Cassiano.”]

* Stones of Venice, vol. i., App. 15 [Vol. IX. p. 449].

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