The Works of John Ruskin (Volume 21) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [General Bibliographical Nate.?The Catalogues, etc., printed or written by Ruskin, which are embodied in the following pages, are these: ? 1. Catalogue of Examples, 1870. Afterwards redistributed in Nos. 2 and 3. For the Bibliographical Note ou this, see p. 5. 2. Catalogue of the Standard and Reference Series.?For the Bibliographical Note on this, see p. 6. 3. Catalogue of the Educational Series, including "Notes ou Educational Series."?For the Bibliographical Note, see p. 55. 4. Catalogue of the Educational Series, 1S78.?Not hitherto printed: we p. 145. 5. Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, 1872; containing also 6. Instructions in Elementary Drawing, 1872.?For the Bibliographical Note on Noe. 5 and 6, see p. 161. 7. Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, 1878.?Not hitherto printed: see p. 265. With regard to the presentation of these Catalogues in this volume it should be noted that those printed by Ruskin (1, 2, 3, 5, an1l 6) were never revised so as to note the alterations subsequently made in the arrangement of the Examples, and that the MS. Catalogues, now first printed (4 and 7), were made for a rearrangement of the Collection, which was in fact never carried out. A large part of the examples in the Reference Series and Educational Series was never catalogued by Ruskin at all, and this work has now been done for the first time in this volume. The following pages contain, therefore, (a) all Ruskin's own Catalogues (whether already printed or in MS.), but so arranged as to suit (6) the inclusion of the new matter descriptive of examples which were not catalogued by Ruskin. Such matter is in all cases distinguished by being included within square brackets (see, for instance, p. 23). Most of this new matter is inserted into Ruskin's own incomple...