BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE lxix

College a little money; so I got Ruskin to lend me the block (or stero) in Smith’s hands of the Doge’s Palace cut, and put an orange cover on the new issue on rather larger paper, and the College got what proceeds came of it.” The title-page of this second edition is as follows:-

On the Nature of | Gothic Architecture: | and herein of the | True Functions of the Workman | in Art. | By John Ruskin, Esq., A.M. | Reprinted from the Sixth Chapter of the Second Volume of Mr. Ruskin’s | “Stones of Venice,” by the kind permission of the Author | and his Publishers. | London: | Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., 65 Cornhill; | and sold by all Booksellers. | 1854. | [Price Sixpence.]

Small 8vo, pp. ii.+50. Half-title (with the note about profits in the centre of the reverse), pp. i.-ii.; Title-page, p. i.; and Text, pp. 2-50. Imprint as before. Issued on November 18, 1854, in buff-coloured paper wrappers, with the title-page slightly varied in setting, enclosed in an ornamental ruled frame. Pages 3 and 4 of the wrappers are filled with advertisements of the following “Works of Mr. Ruskins”:-(1) The Opening of the Crystal Palace, (2) Lectures on Architecture and Painting, (3) The Stones of Venice, (4) Examples of the Architecture of Venice, (5) Modern Painters, vol. i. and vol. ii. (with the announcement “The Third Volume is in Preparation”), (6) The Seven Lamps of Architecture, (7) Pre-Raphaelitism, (8) The King of the Golden River, (9) Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds. A few copies were issued in cloth boards.

In this edition the woodcut of the Ducal Palace, Venice, is inserted as a frontispiece, printed upon a folding page; the omitted reference to it in § 112 is restored; and the text is enlarged by a passage on pp. 48-49 “From the Third Chapter of the Third Volume of The Stones of Venice” (§§ 32, 33, and 34); and on pp. 49-50 by a passage “From the ‘Conclusion’ to The Stones of Venice, vol. iii.” (§ 8). The text is otherwise unchanged.

Third (“Kelmscott”) edition (1892).-This was the fourth work issued by William Morris from his “Kelmscott Press.” It is in the “golden type” and in black only. The title-page is:-

The Nature of Gothic A Chap- | ter of the Stones of Venice. | By John Ruskin.

Small quarto, pp vi.+128; the title, however, is not included in the pagination in the text, the preface being paged, at the foot, i.-v. This preface, by William Morris, is here reprinted (p. 460). The Text occupies pp. 1-123, each paragraph having an ornamental initial letter; the Appendix, pp. 124-128: this consists of the longer footnotes thus brought together. At the close of it is the following colophon: “Here ends the Nature of Gothic, by John Rus- | kin, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott | Press, Hammer- smith, and published by George | Allen, 8 Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London, and | Sunnyside, Orpington.” Issued on March 24, 1892, in antique limp vellum boards, with green, pink, blue, or yellow strings to tie, and lettered in gilt across the back: “The | Nature | of | Gothic | . By | John | Ruskin | 1892.” Five hundred copies were printed upon English hand-made paper, the price being 30s. net. Copies have been sold in the auction-rooms in recent years at prices ranging from £3, 3s. to £4, 16s.

The contents of this edition differ from those of the preceding reprints. It begins earlier in § 1, at the words “We are now about to enter, etc.,” and the

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