lxxxviii BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

SMALL EDITION (VOLS. I.-III.)

First Edition (in small form).-The title-page of vol. i. is as follows:-

Præterita. | Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts | perhaps worthy of memory | in my past life. | By | John Ruskin, LL.D., D.C.L. | Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary | Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. | Volume I. | With One Engraving. | George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington | and | 156, Charing Cross Road, London. | 1899. | [All rights reserved.]

The title-pages of vols. ii. and iii. are the same, except for the alteration of volume, and in the case of vol. ii. of “With Two Engravings.” The title-page of vol. iii. makes no mention of the inclusion of Dilecta.

Crown 8vo, uniform with other volumes of the author’s works in the same form. Volumes i. and ii. were issued in May and June 1899; Volume iii., in February 1900. Price 5s. per vol., reduced (in January 1904) to 3s. 6d. 3000 copies of each volume.

The collation of the several volumes is as follows:-

Volume i.-Half-title (with blank reverse), pp. i.-ii. Plate, “My Two Aunts,” frontispiece. Title-page (with imprint at the foot of the reverse, “Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. | At the Ballantyne Press”), pp. iii.-iv. Preface, pp. v.-vi. Contents of vol. i. (see here, below, pp. 5-9), pp. vii.-xii. Text of Chapters i.-xii., pp. 1-358. Imprint at the foot of the reverse, “Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. | Edinburgh and London.”

Volume ii.-Pp. i.-iv. as before. Plate, “The Castle of Annecy,” frontispiece. Contents (see here pp. 237-242), pp. v.-x. Text of Chapters i.-xii., pp. 1-362. Imprint as in vol. i.

Volume iii.-Pp. i.-iii. as before. Plate, “The Grande Chartreuse,” frontispiece. On p. iv. is the “Note” given above (p. lxxxvii.), with the omission of the words after “Three Volumes.” Contents (here pp. 471-472), pp. v.-viii. Text of Præterita, chaps. i.-iv., pp. 1-148. Half-title for Dilecta (with blank reverse), pp. 149-150; Preface, pp. 151-152; text of Dilecta, chaps. i.-iii., pp. 153-229. Half-title, “Index” (with blank reverse), pp. 231-232; Index, pp. 233-328. Imprint as in vols. i. and ii.

In this edition the sections of Præterita and Dilecta were numbered, each volume of Præterita being separately numbered (as in the present edition), and the references in the Index (which in the 8vo edition were to pages) were made to the sections.

A Second Edition (in small form) was issued of Vol. i. in February 1905, 1000 copies (“11th Thousand”); and of Vol. ii. in September 1906, 500 copies (“11th Thousand”).

POCKET EDITION

From the electrotype plates of the edition last described, a Pocket Edition was issued in May (vols. i. and ii.) and June (vol. iii.) 1907, uniform with other volumes in the same form (see Vol. XV. p. 6), except

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