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footnotes to the text as “The corrected copy.” The MS. is described in Appendix II. (pp. 278-287), where several additional passages are given. Examples of characteristic variations between the MS. and the printed text are given in the footnotes.

A facsimile of a page of the author’s MS. is given between pp. 222 and 223; it is of the well-known description of Champagnole, at the beginning of the chapter on “The Lamp of Memory.”

The plates in this edition are, with the exception of one additional plate, reproductions by photogravure of those prepared for the second edition of 1855. Except in the case of the frontispiece, the scale has been slightly reduced to fit the page of this edition. The original plates of 1849, etched by Ruskin’s own hand, were entrusted by him to Mr. Allen. After careful experiments, they have been found not to be in a fit state for use. It would have been possible to retouch them into some semblance at any rate of their pristine state, but the interest of them, as the author’s own handiwork, would thereby have been destroyed. They have accordingly been broken up. By fortunate chance, however, one unused plate, etched by Ruskin, has been found among those in Mr. Allen’s keeping. It is a second version of Plate IX. (“Tracery of the Campanile of Giotto, Florence”) in the original edition. It differs in two or three respects from the plate used in that edition, and is decidedly stronger and more effective. In the second edition, Plate IX. was cancelled, a frontispiece-engraved by Armytage from a new drawing of the same subject-being substituted. The inclusion of the duplicate plate etched by Ruskin makes the present edition complete, and gives a characteristic example of the author’s handiwork which illustrated the original edition. An index to the plates, added in this edition, will, it is hoped, be found convenient for reference.

The remaining illustration is a facsimile (both in colour and in design) of the ornamental binding of the first and second editions.¹

E. T. C.

¹ For a description of the design, see below, p. 185.

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