BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 197

IN A COMPLETE VOLUME

St. Mark’s Rest was next published as a complete volume, and of this there have been several editions:-

First Edition (1884).-This was made up from copies of the several parts, as current at the time. The title-page is as given here (p. 193).

Crown 8vo. There is first an unnumbered leaf, having on its recto the following Publisher’s Note (printed in italics):-

“PUBLISHER’S NOTE

“THE issue of the Appendix to Chapter VIII. concludes for the present ‘St. Mark’s Rest,’ the Epilogue to which is now deferred in view of the possible continuation of the book. As this, however, cannot be either certain or immediate, it has been thought convenient to complete this volume in its present form. In binding, the Appendix to Chapter VIII. should follow that chapter, as may be seen on reference to the ‘Contents.’”

Half-title, pp. i., ii.; Title-page, pp. iii., iv.; Preface (here pp. 203-205), pp. v.-viii.; Contents (here pp. 201-202), pp. ix., x.; Text (including a half-title to the Appendix), pp. 1-160; Supplements, pp. iv.+46 and pp. x.+38; Index, pp. i.-xx.

Issued in March 1884, in cloth boards (brown or green), lettered across the back “Ruskin | St. Mark’s Rest.” Price 6s.

Second Edition (1894).-In this, called “New Complete Edition,” the book was for the first time paged consecutively throughout, and the paragraphs were numbered. The title-page is:-

St. Mark’s Rest | The History of Venice | Written for the help of the few travellers | who still care for her monuments | By | John Ruskin, LL.D. | Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary Fellow | of Corpus Christi College, Oxford | Second Edition | George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington | and | 156, Charing Cross Road, London | 1894 | [All rights reserved].

Crown 8vo, pp. xii.+267. On p. v. is the following:-

“PUBLISHER’S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION

“IN this edition, St. Mark’s Rest, hitherto published in six parts, which are still obtainable separately, has been treated as a single and coherent volume. The pagination has been made continuous throughout the book; the text divided into numbered sections; and the different parts form the chapters, the last three of which have hitherto been issued as an ‘appendix to Chapter VIII.,’ and as the First and Second Supplements. The Author’s full plan for the work, as given in the Preface (p. ix.), has never been fully carried out, and the appendix there mentioned, and referred to in the notes to §§ 3 and 4, has never been written. Except for some revision of the Index, the text of the book is unaltered.”

Preface, pp. vii.-x.; Contents, pp. xi., xii.; Text, pp. 1-248; Index, pp. 249-267. At the foot of p. 267 is the imprint-“Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. | Edinburgh and London.” The Note at the end of

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