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(a photogravure by “Pellissier & Allen”): see now Plate XXXV. (p. 473). Title-page for Præterita, vol. iii., given with note, etc., as described below. Then came the following “Publisher’s Note”:-

“The Titles and fuller Contents are now given in order that purchasers of the original editions may have the work in as complete a form as possible. When binding up the volumes these are intended to take the place of those originally issued with the parts.”

The Titles and fuller Contents for Volumes I. and II. followed. These have been described under the Second Editions of those volumes.

At the same time large-paper copies of Dilecta were issued (Parts I. and II., price 2s.; Part III., 5s.), so that purchasers of the large-paper copies of Præterita might complete their sets of the combined book.

“PRÆTERITA” AND “DILECTA” COMBINED

IN OCTAVO FORM (VOL. III.)

The issue of the third Part of Dilecta, just described, made possible the issue of

Volume III. of Præterita (including Dilecta), in 8vo and 4to form. The title-page (which, curiously, made mention of Præterita only) is as follows:-

Præterita. | Outlines of | Scenes and Thoughts | perhaps | worthy of memory | in my past life. | By | John Ruskin, LL.D. | Honorary Student of Christ Church, | and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. | Volume III. | With Two Plates. | [Rose.] | George Allen, | Orpington and London. |1900. | All rights reserved.

Octavo (uniform with Vols. I. and II.). Half-title (with blank reverse), pp. i.-ii.; title-page, p. iii. In the centre of p. iv. is the “Note” given below. “Contents of Vol. III.,” including Contents of Dilecta (with the preliminary “Note,” see below), pp. v.-viii. Text of Præterita, vol. iii. chaps. i.-iv., pp. 1-182. Then comes a half-title of Dilecta, p. i. (with blank reverse); there are no pp. iii.-iv.; Preface, pp. v.-vi. Text of Dilecta, pp. 1-92; half-title “Index” (with blank reverse), pp. 93-94; Index (to Præterita and Dilecta), pp. 95-171. Imprint (“Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. | Edinburgh and London”) at the foot of p. 171. The imprint is in fact only applicable to Dilecta, the portion of the volume devoted to Præterita having been printed by Messrs. Hazell, Watson & Viney.

Issued in February 1900; in green cloth uniform with Vols. I. and II. Price 9s. 6d.

The “Note” referred to above is as follows:-

“This volume of Præterita consists of the Four Chapters published by Mr. Ruskin in 1888-1889, together with the two of Dilecta published by him in 1886-1887. A further part of Dilecta hitherto unpublished, but set up in type, and revised by Mr. Ruskin, is now added, together with a full Index to all Three Volumes, and the plate ‘The Castle of Annecy’ originally included only in the large paper edition.”

This Note omitted to mention that the volume included also the Plate “The Grande Chartreuse,” intended as a frontispiece to the third volume of Præterita. (It was supplied with Part III. of Dilecta.)

The new List of Contents was compiled, as also the Index, by Mr. Wedderburn.

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