[Bibliographical Note.-For general Note on Fors Clavigera, see Vol. XXVII. P. xci. Here details are given of (1) the issue of Letters 37-72 in separate form; (2) the issue of the same Letters in octavo volumes; and (3) the curtailments in the same Letters made in the "Small Edition" (see Vol. XXVII. p. c.). (1) LETTERS 37-72: SEPARATE ISSUE Title-pages were not issued with these Letters. The title on the front of the wrapper of each of them was as follows, the only changes being in the numbers of the Letters and the dates:1 Fors Clavigera. | Letters | To the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin, LL.D. | Letter the Thirty-seventh. | January 1st, 1874. |[Rose.]| London: Printed for the Author by | Watson & Hazell, London and Aylesbury; and sold by Mr. George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. | Price Tenpence. The dates given below are those of the publication of the First Editions. On the back of the wrapper was the following "Advertisement": : For reasons which will be explained in the course of these Letters, I wish to retain complete command over their mode of publication. "For the present, they will be sold by MR. GEORGE ALLEN, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. Post-office Orders, in advance, may be made payable to MR. GEORGE ALLEN, Chief Office, London. "They will be sold for Tenpence each, without abatement on quantity, and forwarded, post-paid, on remittance of the price of the number required, to any place in the United Kingdom." The price, as stated, was raised to Tenpence from Sevenpence (see Letter 37, § 12). The price of volumes supplied by the publisher correspondingly became 10s., but this was reduced in March 1893 to 7s. The wrappers were of pale grey paper, and the size, octavo, as before. The pagination was now continuous through each set of twelve Letters. Except in the case of the first edition of Letters 58, 59, 61-72, which consisted of 1050 copies, all the editions of Letters 37-72 consisted of 1000 copies. The title of the Letter was also, except where otherwise stated (see under Letter 57), added in the Third Edition in each case. LETTERS 37-48, FORMING VOLUME IV.: 1874 LETTER 37. First Edition (January 1, 1874).—Pages 1–24. 1 It may also be noted that on and after Letter 60 the imprint was changed to "Hazell, Watson, & Viney, London and Aylesbury." LETTER 39. First Edition (March 2, 1874).—Pages 51-71 (p. 72 blank) Letters 41 and 42, though differently dated, were in fact issued together see Letter 41, § 1, p. 79. LETTER 43. First Edition (July 1, 1874).-Pages 137-160. Letters 37-48 have not been reprinted collectively in volume form. Volumes supplied by the publisher have been made up from time to time of the current editions of the separate Letters. The title-page as issued in 1875 is as given here (p. 3). LETTERS 49-60, FORMING VOLUME V.: 1875 LETTER 49. First Edition (January 1, 1875).—Pages 1-27. In this edition the letter from a correspondent (§ 21, p. 396 in this volume) which occupied pp. 233-238 of the first edition was withdrawn. This alteration caused the text to end on p. 242. Third Edition (September 1886).—Text as in the second edition. Except in the first edition, there are no pp. 243-246, as Letter 57 (in all editions) still begins on p. 247. LETTER 57. First Edition (September 1, 1875).—Pages 247-270. This Letter contained some disparaging remarks upon Mr. Gladstone, whom Ruskin visited at Hawarden in January 1878 (see Vol. XXV. p. xxiii.). He thereupon cancelled the Second Edition, and issued a third. Third Edition (February 1878).-For the cancelled passage and the explanatory note by the author, see p. 403. Fourth Edition (September 1886).-The title of the Letter was now added. LETTER. 58. First Edition (October 1, 1875). Pages 271-298. Letters 49-60 have never been reprinted collectively in volume form. Volumes supplied by the publisher have been made up from time to time of the current editions of the separate Letters. The title-page originally supplied is reproduced in this volume (p. 225). LETTERS 61-72, FORMING VOLUME VI.: 1876 LETTER 61. First Edition (January 1, 1876).—Pages 1–39. Second Edition (March 1877). This edition omitted one passage (see p. 576 n.). Third Edition (April 1886). With this Letter an illustration was issued, facing p. 123, "Facsimile from Lombardic Writing" (in the present volume Plate IV.). LETTER 65. First Edition (May 1, 1876).-Pages 141-169. With this Letter a frontispiece was issued, "Facsimile of the last words written by Nelson" (here Plate VI.). LETTER 67. First Edition (July 1, 1876).—Pages 203-242. Second Edition (February 1877). Third Edition (September 1884). LETTER 71. First Edition (November 1, 1876).—Pages 339–376. Of this Letter 100 copies were bound in red leatherette (for sale in Venice), lettered on the front, "Fors Clavigera. No. 71. | The Legend of St. Ursula | Ruskin." Second Edition (July 1877). Third Edition (October 1884).-In the List of Contents issued in 1882 the Letter is entitled "The Feudal Ranks," but by inadvertence, or because in the leatherette copies a different title was given, no title was printed above the letter. LETTER 72. First Edition (December 1, 1876).—Pages 377–396. Letters 61-72 have never been reprinted collectively in volume form. Volumes supplied by the publisher have been made up from time to time of current copies of the several Letters. The title-page originally supplied was as here printed (p. 471). The volume as now supplied by the publisher has a different title-page thus : Fors Clavigera. | Letters | To the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. By John Ruskin, LL. D., | Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary Fellow of Corpus | Christi College, Oxford. | Vol. VI. | Third Edition. [Rose.] | George Allen, | Orpington and London. | 1895. "Third Edition" means that the volume is made up of third edition copies of the several Letters. LETTER TO YOUNG GIRLS (A reprint, with addition, from Letters 65 and 66) First Edition (1876).—This is a pamphlet without title-page, but with the following "drop-title" on p. 1: Letter to Young Girls. | By J. Ruskin, LL.D. A footnote to the title states, "Reprinted, with slight addition, from Fors Clavigera." Duodecimo, pp. 8. The imprint at the foot of p. 8 is "Published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, | Orpington, Kent." The headline is "Letter to Young Girls" on each page. Issued stitched, without wrappers, and sold in packets containing twelve copies, at the price of eightpence per packet. Later editions have been very numerous. They are distinguished by the number of the edition or thousand being added at the end of the text on p. 8, where also the publisher's imprint has varied from time to time. The edition now current (1907) is "Seventy-fifth Thousand" and bears the date May 1902." 66 The Letter consists of: (1) On pp. 1-5 a reprint (with slight revisions) of Fors Clavigera, Letter 65, §§ 24, 25. For note of the revisions, see below, pp. 608, 610. (2) On pp. 5-7 a reprint (again with revisions) of Fors Clavigera, Letter 66, § 24. For note of the revisions, see below, pp. 635, 637. (3) On pp. 7-8 an additional passage. This has here been |