lxviii BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Second Edition (1867).-Title-page the same as before, except for the alteration of date; the addition of the words “Second Edition”; and the transposition of Modern Painters and The Seven Lamps of Architecture in the description of the author. The collation is the same, but there is a different imprint: “London. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New Street Square.” The binding and price remained the same. Issued on March 20, 1867. The alterations in the text were very few (see below).

These two are the only editions of vol. ii. published separately. For issues of the volume as part of the complete work, and for the “Travellers’ Edition,” see Vol. IX. pp. liv.-lviii.

SEPARATE REPRINTS OF CHAPTER VI. (“THE NATURE OF GOTHIC”)

First Edition (1854).-The title-page 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. | Being the greater part of the Sixth Chapter of the Second Volume of Mr. Ruskin’s “Stones of Venice” (3 vols., royal 8vo, £5, 15s. 6d., | Smith, Elder, & Co.) here reprinted by the kind permission | of the Author and his Publisher. | London: | Smith, Elder, & Co., 65 Cornhill. | 1854. | Price Fourpence.

Small 8vo, pp. 48. On p. 48 is the following footnote:-”The profits arising from the sale of this pamphlet will be offered to the Working Men’s College, 31 Red Lion Square, London.” The imprint reads: “Kenny, Printer, 5 Heathcock Court, Strand.” Issued on Monday, October 30, 1854, sewn, without wrappers. For the circumstances of its publication see Dr. Furnivall’s statement quoted above, p. lx. He adds in a note to the editor of Wise and Smart’s Bibliography (ii. 75): “I can’t tell you how many were printed, but suppose 600 at first-cost me £5 or £6, I think-and perhaps 500 afterwards. ... Kenny didn’t print the tract himself-he was too small a man, but got Spottiswoode or Bradbury to do it for him.” Copies of this first edition are comparatively rare.

The text of this reprint included, as stated on the title-page, “the greater part of the sixth chapter.” Omissions were necessary owing to the non-inclusion of plates referred to in the text; all the original woodcuts were, however, given. The reprint, omitting the first few lines of § 1, begins “I shall endeavour to give the reader, etc.,” and continues to the end of § 44. The whole of § 45, except the last two lines, is omitted. It then continues down to the end of the first paragraph of § 101. The rest of that section, and §§ 102-105 (inclusive), are omitted in the text, but the latter portion of § 105 (“The superiority of the Surface Gothic, etc.”), with the accompanying Fig. 20, is given as a footnote on p. 46. It then continues to the end of the chapter, omitting, however, in § 112 the last nine lines containing a reference to the woodcut of the Ducal Palace in ch. viii.; a few other references to different portions of the work are omitted in earlier sections. The sections are not numbered in the reprint.

Second Edition (1854).-“The tract was naturally much liked,” says Dr. Furnivall in the note quoted above, “and folk thought it would bring the

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