VOLUME ONE I. Complete Edition. ---
This was the first edition published by Mr. George Allen, instead of by Messrs, Smith, Elder & Co. With the exception of this alteration, of the altered date, and of "Complete Edition" for "A New Edition," the wording of the title-pages was the same as those of the 1873 edition, except (further) that the author was now described as "John Ruskin, LL.D., Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford". The title of each volume was enclosed within a plain ruled frame. The collation is:-vol. i. pp. lxiii.+425; vol. ii. pp. xxvii.+264; vol. iii. pp. xix.+351; vol. iv. pp. xii.+420; vol. v. pp. xvi.+364. Each volume contained "Additional Notes" at the end, these being derived from Frondes Agrestes (see below), the rearranged edition of vol. ii. (see Bibliographical Note to next vol. of this edition), In Montibus Sanctis and Cœli Enarrant (see below). The fifth volume contained three additional plates (see Bibliographical Note to that vol.) and an Epilogue by the author dated "Chamouni, Sunday, September 16, 1888." Three of the original plates (Nos. 12, "The Shores of Wharfe," 73, "Loire Side," and 74, "The Millstream") had been destroyed. They were reproduced for this edition from early proofs of those originally etched by the author's own hand. Nine other plates were re-engraved, viz.:-
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The Lombard Apennine |
T. Lupton |
G. Allen. |
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15. |
St. George of the Seaweed |
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The Shores of Wharfe |
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49. |
Truth and Untruth of Stones |
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C.A. Tomkins. |
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52. |
Spirals of Thorn |
R.P. Cuff |
G. Cook. |
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58. |
Branch Curvature |
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68. |
Monte Rosa: Sunset |
J.C. Armytage |
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80. |
Rocks at Rest |
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81. |
Rocks in Unrest |
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Several of the original plates were retouched by Mr. George Allen or his son, Mr. Hugh Allen. The "Complete Edition" was in other respects a reprint of that of 1873, with no alterations of text, except in the case of wrong references or obvious errors. The prefaces and one or two other passages were divided into numbered sections for the sake of the references in the index volume (see below); the indices given at the end of vol. v. in the 1873 edition were not reprinted. The edition was issued (on May 9, 1889) in brown cloth boards. Two thousand copies were printed, the price being Six Guineas the set of five volumes; also 450 Large-Paper copies (on Whatman's hand-made paper) at Ten Guineas; these latter were issued (Jan. 31, 1889) in green cloth, the steel engravings being on India paper.
With this edition was issued an index volume (by Mr. A. Wedderburn). The following are extracts from the Prefatory Note:-
"The present volume, though issued with Mr. Ruskin's sanction, has been compiled without reference to him, and he is, therefore, in no way responsible for it.
"The references used in the index will be found equally applicable to all the editions of the different volumes of the work. The old index hitherto contained in the fifth volume of Modern Painters is omitted from the 'Complete Edition,' but embodied in the present index, though not always under quite the same headings....
"A bibliography of Modern Painters, and a collation of the main differences between the various editions, are placed at the end of the volume, and will, it is believed, be valued by collectors and students of Mr. Ruskin's works."
The collation is pp. vii.+316. The price of the volume was 14s.; and (uniform with the large-paper copies), 21s.
(An account of the "Complete Edition" of 1888, with various details supplied by Mr. George Allen, appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, Feb. 1, 1889, and was reprinted in E. T. Cook's Studies in Ruskin, 1890, pp. 196-200.) ( Works, 3.lix-lx).
Not simply a reprint. There are a large number of alterations in punctuation, some corrections of spelling, and some introduced misprints.