The Works of John Ruskin

Part III., comprising Chapter iii.

First Edition (September 1882).-The title-page differed only in the words "Chapter III.-The Lion Tamer," and the date "1882."

Octavo, pp. 89-136. 2000 copies.

Second Edition (August 1885).—2000 copies. A few small alterations were made in the text; these are noted below (p. 16).

With this Part was issued as frontispiece "Amiens: Jour des Trépassés" (here Plate II.).

Part IV., comprising Chapter iv.

First Edition (October 1883).-The title-page, after the author's name, proceeded :

Octavo, pp. 137-216 (last page blank). 3000 copies.

The text of the chapter was revised for this issue (see below, pp. 16, 17). With this Part was issued the following "Publisher's Note" :—

"Subscribers to Our Fathers have Told Us' are requested to note that the present portion of the work ('The Bible of Amiens') will be shortly completed by the publication of a final number containing the author's epilogue, further engravings, appendices explanatory of the photographs and other matters referred to in the body of the work, and a full index to the entire volume. The price of this appendix will be 1s. 8d., remittance for which should be sent in advance to Mr. Allen; the cost of the whole volume thus amounting to 5s., or in plain cloth, 6s.

"SUNNYSIDE, ORPINGTON, KEnt.

"Post Office Orders payable to George Allen, at Chief Office, London. Cheques crossed London and County Bank. Stamps not accepted for sums over Five Shillings.'

The promised "author's epilogue" was never written. ·

Second Edition (June 1893).—350 copies.

In May 1884 an octavo fly-sheet was issued, headed, "Our Fathers have Told Us.' Advice." This was a revision of the similar Advice issued with Part II. (see above, p. 7). It is identical with the text of Appendix III. (here pp. 186, 187), except that for "The first part of 'Our Fathers . . .” it reads, "The four chapters of Our Fathers . . .'"; it does not contain the words "contrary to my usual custom" before "I now invite subscription"; nor, after those words, the passage "because .. supporters." Instead of "The present volume completes," it reads, "The Appendix, which will be issued shortly, completes." And finally, instead of the two

1 That is, first edition in the octavo form. The chapter had been issued in another form in 1881 (see p. 11).

last sentences as they now stand in Appendix III., it reads, “One illustration will be given with each chapter,” adding as a footnote, "The first plate for 'The Bible of Amiens' will be issued with Appendix."

Part V., prepared for Ruskin by Mr. Wedderburn, comprising the Appendices, Index, and Preliminary Matter.

First Edition (June 1885).—On the cover was :-

There was no separate title-page. Octavo, pp. i-viii., 219-263. For collation of pp. i-viii., see below. On p. 217, list of "Appendices"; p. 218, blank; Appendix I., pp. 219, 220; Appendix II., pp. 221-230; Appendix III., pp. 231, 232; p. 233, "Index"; p. 234, blank; Index (by Mr. Wedderburn), pp. 235-263.

3000 copies. Price 1s. 8d.

With this Part were issued a frontispiece, "St. Mary. By Cimabue, at Assisi" (now Frontispiece to this volume); Plate I., "The Dynasties of France" (here Plate VI.)—a leaf was inserted after Plate I. containing a "Notice" with reference to the subjects represented on it (see now, p. 33 n.); and "Plan of West Porches," which was a double-page Plate (unnumbered), folded (here Plate XII.).

There was a confusing misprint in Appendix II., List ii., photograph "18" being misprinted "13." This misprint has been repeated in all the small editions.

IN VOLUME FORM

The Bible of Amiens, being thus completed, was now issued in volume form, bearing the date "1884," though not issued till the next year. The title-page is as here given on p. 3.

Octavo, pp. xiv. +263. The collation of pp. 1-263 has been already given. Half-title (with blank reverse), unnumbered; Title-page (with imprint at foot of the reverse, repeated at the foot of p. 263-"Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Limited, London and Aylesbury), pp. i., ii.; Corrigenda (with blank reverse), unnumbered (see p. 10); Contents (with blank reverse), unnumbered; Preface (here, pp. 21-24), pp. iii.-vii.; p. viii. is blank. The headlines are, on the left-hand pages, "The Bible of Amiens," except that in the cases of the Notes to Chapter i., Appendices and Index, the headlines are "Notes," 66 Appendices," "Index on both left-hand and right-hand pages; on the right-hand pages, the title of the chapter occupying them.

Issued in June 1885 in cloth boards (red, brown, or green), lettered across the back, "Ruskin | Our Fathers | have Told Us' | I| The Bible of Amiens." Issued also in mottled-grey paper boards, with white paper label on the back. Price 6s.

The list of Corrigenda was as follows; references to the sections and lines in the present edition being now added at the end of each entry :Page 8, lines 8 and 9, for "our first photograph (see prefatory references)," read "our first choir photograph "1 (N. B.-This series is not yet arranged, but is distinct from that referred to in Chapter iv. See Appendix II.).—§ 7, line 18.

19, line 12, for a young person, read young persons.-§ 18, line 8.

25, line 16, for who accusing him, read on whose accusation of.-§ 24, line 18. 34, The plan for numbered and lettered references is not followed after the first chapter.-This was added as a note in small ed.; see now, p. 48 n. 44, lines 8 and 9, for armies reverberated, read armies, reverberate.-Ch. ii. § 4, last line.

48, line 8, for nomade, read nomad.-Ch. ii. § 10, line 5.

58, line 18, for Eisenbach, read Eisenach.-Ch. ii. § 24, line 22.

58, line 20, for by, read beyond.-Ibid., line 24.

61, note, for Actuarii, read Attuarii.-Ch. ii. § 28, line 4 of note.

62, note, for brise, read bise.-Ibid., p. 68, line 2 of quotation in note.

62, note, for coulous, read coulons.-Ibid., line 8.

78, line 20, for Batoerans, read Batavians.-Ch. ii. § 45, line 3.

89, line 11, for burrow; read burrow,-Ch. iii. § 1, line 9.

186, line 21, for herself, read himself.-Ch. iv. § 41, 8 B, line 1.

190, note, for No. 10, read No. 9.-Ch. iv. § 42, 16 B, line 2 of note.

192, line 7, for (2 Kings), read (1 Kings).-Ch. iv. § 43, 20 A.

195, line 3, for Two more are, read Another is.-Ch. iv. § 43, 24 B.

SMALL EDITION (1897)2

The Bible of Amiens was next issued in a smaller form, uniform with the "Small Edition of Ruskin's other books. It was called (not quite correctly) "Third" Edition. The title-page is :

EDITOR'S NOTE TO THE 1897 EDITION

IN this edition, Chapter I. has, for convenience of reference in the Index, been divided into numbered sections, and the references are throughout to the section of each chapter, and not to the page. Otherwise the text is unaltered, save for the correction of misprints in earlier editions, and one or two notes (marked ED. 1897) added by the compiler of Appendix I., the two lists in Appendix II., and the Index.

Preface, pp. vii.-xi. (blank reverse); Contents, pp. xiii.-xiv.; List of Illustrations, p. xv. (blank reverse). Text, pp. 1-256.3 On p. 257 is the "Plan of West Porches," reduced in scale from the octavo edition. On p. 259 is fly-title for Appendices. Appendix I., pp. 261–262; Appendix II.,

1 The correction here itself has been corrected; for it was misprinted in the list, which read (among other typographical errors) "our first choice photographs." 2 Though the title-page bears the date "1897," the book was not in fact issued

till 1898.

Curiously, there are no pages 49 or 50.

pp. 263-274; Appendix III., pp. 275–277; Index, pp. 279-310. The imprint is repeated at the foot of the last page.

Issued on June 9, 1898, in green cloth boards, lettered on the back, "Ruskin | 'Our Fathers | have Told Us' | The Bible | of Amiens." 2000 copies. Price 5s.

In Appendix I.,

A curious error crept into the Small Edition of 1897. the references had in the octavo editions been to pages. They were now altered to sections (§§); but whereas in the text the sections of the chapters were not numbered continuously, but separately for each chapter, some of the references in this Appendix were given as if the continuous plan had been adopted. This error has continued until the present edition.

Reprinted in November 1902, without alteration except of the date on the title-page and of the addition of the words "Seventh Thousand." This edition is still current. The price was reduced in January 1904 to 4s., and in July 1907 to 3s. 6d.

POCKET EDITION

From the electrotype plates of the Small Edition, a Pocket Edition was issued in 1907, uniform with other volumes in the same edition (see Vol. XV. p. 6). The title-page is :

"Our Fathers have Told Us" | The Bible of Amiens | By | John Ruskin | London: George Allen.

SEPARATE TRAVELLERS' EDITION OF CHAPTER IV. (1881)

This is, as already explained, the first edition of Chapter iv., which was not issued uniformly with the other chapters until 1883. The titlepage is :

"Our Fathers have Told Us." | Part I. | The Bible of Amiens. | Chapter IV. Interpretations. | (Separate Travellers' Edition, to serve as Guide to the | Cathedral.) | By | John Ruskin, LL.D., | Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College. | George Allen, | Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. | 1881. Crown 8vo, pp. iv. +75. ("Our Fathers have Told Us.") Half-title with blank reverse, pp. i., ii.; Title-page (with imprint at the foot of the reverse, repeated at the foot of p. 75-"Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury"), pp. iii., iv.; text, pp. 1-75. The headline on the left-hand pages is "The Bible of Amiens"; on the right-hand pages, "Interpretations."

Issued (in November 1881) in red leatherette covers (similar to those of the original issues of Mornings in Florence and St. Mark's Rest); lettered, in gold, on the front: "The Bible of Amiens. | No. 4. Interpretations. Separate Travellers' Edition. | By J. R. | 1881." The edges were cut and gilt. 2000 copies. Price 10d.

Second Edition (November 1890).-2000 copies.

Third Edition (1897).—This is a newly-set edition. The title-page is :"Our Fathers have Told Us" | The Bible of Amiens | Chapter IV | Interpretations | (Separate Travellers Edition, to serve as | Guide to the Cathedral) | By | John Ruskin, LL.D., D.C.L. | Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford; and | Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi | College, Oxford | Third Edition | George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington | and | 156, Charing Cross Road, London | 1897 | [All rights reserved]. Crown 8vo, pp. iv. +98. Half-title("The Bible of Amiens | Guide to Cathedral"), with blank reverse, pp. i., ii.; Title-page (with imprint at foot of the reverse-" Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. | At the Ballantyne Press "), pp. iii., iv. ; text, pp. 1-93. On p. 94 is the "Plan of West Porches." On pp. 95-98, is the Advice, as described below (p. 14). Imprint repeated at foot of p. 98.

Issued in 1897, in red leatherette, and lettered as before. 2000 copies.

ADVICE TO CHAPTER IV

With the Separate Travellers' Edition an Advice" was issued,

First Edition (November 1881).—There was no title-page, but on p. 1 was the following drop-title :—

Crown 8vo, pp. 4. There are no headlines, pp. 2-4 being numbered centrally.

The substance of this "Advice" was embodied in Appendix II. of the complete work, but as there are many variations, the original Advice is here reprinted:

PART 1.

THE BIBLE OF AMIENS.

CHAP. IV.

INTERPRETATIONS.

(Separate Travellers Edition, to serve as Guide
to the Cathedral.)

ADVICE.

THIS fourth number of the BIBLE OF AMIENS is printed before the second and third, (on which I am earnestly occupied,) in a reduced size for the convenience of travellers, who may wish to possess this number only as a guide to the Cathedral, without bringing the whole work. It will, however, be printed uniformly with the rest, for the subscribers to the complete series. The second number is finished in MS., but I find correction of press very irksome, and can only add a very little of that work to the task of composition, besides that I am at last completing the second volume of the small edition of the 'Stones of Venice.'

The quatrefoils on the foundation of the west front of Amiens Cathedral,

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