lxxxvi BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

DILECTA

Of this book, supplementary to Præterita, which Ruskin planned on an extensive scale (see above, p. liv.), but was unable to complete, only two Parts were originally issued, a third being published after an interval of twelve years.

The title-page issued with Part I., and repeated with Part II., was as follows:-

Dilecta. | Correspondence, Diary Notes, and | Extracts from Books, illustrating Præterita. | Arranged by | John Ruskin, LL.D., | Honorary Student of Christ Church, | And Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. | Part I. [II.] | George Allen, | Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. | 1886. [1887.]

Part I. was issued on September 30, 1886, and Part II. on January 13, 1887. No large-paper copies were printed at this time.

Octavo (uniform with Præterita), pp. vi.+64. Part I. consists of half-title (with blank reverse), pp. i.-ii.; title-page (with imprint as in Præterita), pp. iii.-iv.; Preface, pp. v.-vi.; text of Chapter I., pp. 1-32. Part II. consists of title-page, and text of Chapter II., pp. 33-64. The headline is “Dilecta” on each page.

Each Part was issued in pale grey paper wrappers, with the title-page (enclosed in a double-ruled frame) repeated upon the front, with the addition of the rose above the publisher’s imprint, and “Price One Shilling” below the frame. 2000 copies.

In 1900, after Ruskin’s death, a Part III. of Dilecta was issued, including (besides chapter iii., which had been set up in type for himself) additional matter intended to complete the third volume of Præterita. The wrapper of this Part is lettered as follows:-

Dilecta. | Correspondence, Diary Notes, and Extracts from Books, | illustrating | Præterita. | Arranged by| John Ruskin, LL.D., | Honorary Student of Christ Church, | And Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Part III. (final). | With Index to Præterita and Two Plates. | [Rose.] | London: George Allen, Ruskin House. | Price Three Shillings net.

Octavo, issued in rough paper wrappers, in February 1900.

These wrappers contained a title-page for Dilecta (as shown here on p. 565), and, as frontispiece, “The Castle of Annecy. Sunset,” a photogravure by “Pellissier & Allen” from G. Allen’s engraving: see now Plate XXII. (p. 344). Next, title-page of Dilecta, Part III., as follows:-

Dilecta. | Correspondence, Diary Notes, and | Extracts from books, | illustrating | Præterita. | Arranged by | John Ruskin, LL.D., | Honorary Student of Christ Church, | And Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. | Part III. | George Allen, | Orpington and London. | 1900. | All rights reserved.

At the foot of the reverse is the imprint, “Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. | At the Ballantyne Press.” Then comes “Dilecta, Part III.,” pp. 65-92; half-title “Index,” p. 93; Index (by Mr. Wedderburn), pp. 95-171. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 171. Then came half-title for “Præterita, Volume III.”; as frontispiece, “The Grande Chartreuse”

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