Art of England' and 'The Pleasures of England' were originally published separately," and the imprint--" Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., At the Ballantyne Press"; Contents (of both courses of lectures), pp. v.-vi.; half-title, "The Art of England (with blank reverse), pp. vii.viii. ; text of The Art of England, pp. 1–229; Index (with half-title), pp. 231260. For the remainder of the book, see below, p. 416. " Issued (April 27, 1898) in green cloth boards, lettered on the back, "Ruskin | The Art | and | The Pleasures of | Eugland." 2000 copies. Price 5s. (reduced to 3s. 6d., January 1904). Second Edition (1900).—A reprint of the first edition; with the date "1900" and "Ninth Thousand in small form" on the title-page. (This description was inaccurate as applied to the "small form.") Reprinted in 1904 ("Tenth Thousand "). Pocket Edition (1907).—From the electrotype plates of the edition last described, a "Pocket Edition" was issued in 1907, uniform with other volumes (see Vol. XV. p. 6). The title-page is : The Art and Pleasures of England | By | John Ruskin | London: 4000 copies. Price 2s. 6d. net. On the reverse at the foot, "July 1907 | Fourteenth Thousand | All rights reserved." There have been unauthorised American Editions of The Art of England. The Art of England, among other books, was reviewed in the Church Quarterly Review, April 1886, vol. 22, pp. 162-188 (" Materialism in Modern Art"). Notices of the combined edition of 1898 appeared in St. George, July 1898 (vol. i. pp. 154-156), and the Architectural Review, December 1898 (an interesting notice, signed "H. R."; see above, p. lxx. n.). Varia Lectiones.-Some differences between the original edition and its successors have been described above. To these it is to be added that in § 55, line 17, ed. 1 misprinted "anciently" for "intently." In the present edition, numerous mistakes in the Greek in § 78 have been corrected; in § 84 the passage from Roadside Songs of Tuscany is not reprinted; in § 112, line 3, "Birkett" is corrected to "Birket"; in § 114, dots have been inserted to mark places where Ruskin made omissions; in § 123, line 14, "souls" has been misprinted "soul" in all the small editions; in § 128, in a footnote here, the reference in all previous editions has been “Bible of Amiens, p. 14”—that is, to p. 14 of the Separate Traveller's Edition of Chapter iv. ; in § 135, line 4, 66 Burgmaier is corrected to "Burkmair"; in § 166, line 13, "Cousins" is corrected to "Cozens"; in § 170, line 9, the word "it" has been omitted in all previous editions.] THE ART OF ENGLAND LECTURE I REALISTIC SCHOOLS OF PAINTING D. G. ROSSETTI AND W. HOLMAN HUNT (Delivered 9th March 1883) 1. I AM well assured that this audience is too kind, and too sympathetic, to wish me to enlarge on the mingled feelings of fear and thankfulness, with which I find myself once again permitted to enter on the duties in which I am conscious that, before, I fell short in too many ways; and in which I only have ventured to ask, and to accept, your farther trust, in the hope of being able to bring to some of their intended conclusions things not, in the nature of them, it seems to me, beyond what yet remains of an old man's energy; but, before, too eagerly begun, and too irregularly followed. And indeed I am partly under the impression, both in gratitude and regret, that Professor Richmond's resignation, however justly motived by his wish to pursue with uninterrupted thought the career opened to him in his profession, had partly also for its reason the courtesy of concession to his father's old friend; and his own feeling that while yet I was able to be of service in advancing the branches of elementary art with which I was specially acquainted, it was best that I should make the attempt on lines already opened, and with the aid of old friends. I am now alike comforted in having left you, 1 [For Sir William Richmond's statement in this connexion, see Vol. XXII. p. xxxii.] |