II

THE MSS. OF “THE SEVEN LAMPS

OF ARCHITECTURE”

WITH ADDITIONAL PASSAGES

THE MSS. to which the editors have had access in the preparation of this volume are (1) the MS. of the book, together with various sheets of earlier drafts, (2) a copy of the second edition (1855), corrected by Ruskin for the revised edition of 1880. Both of these are now the property of an American collector, who purchased them from Mr. George Allen in 1902. A detailed collation of all differences between the MSS. and the printed text was, however, made before the MSS. were parted with, and this collation has been repeatedly used in the present volume. A reproduction of a page of the MS. is also given (p. 222).

One or two of the early sheets are headed “Sutton Bonnington, Lough-borough” (Yorkshire), having, as it would seem, been written there, when Ruskin was travelling to Scotland in the spring of 1848.

On the back of one of these sheets is a draft of the scheme for the whole book, which bears out the author’s statement (see above, p. 138 n.) of the difficulty he had to keep the number of the “lamps” down to seven. This is the scheme:¹-

Lamp of Sacrifice.

” ” Truth.

” ” Beauty.

” ” Purity-Power? majesty, etc., in severe lines and simplicity.

Palazzo Vecchio. Civic buildings in grandeur, etc. Doge’s Palace, Palazzo Pitti, Strozzi, Warwick Castle, and Italian towers, etc.

” ” Obedience? Order? in composition, subordination of parts, etc.

Necessity of universal return to Early English, if anything to be done in England-head of obedience, then freedom for fancy in details. Type: North transept of Rouen.

¹ [Cf. the much earlier note given above in the Introduction, p. xxiii.]

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