Bibliographical Note.-Editions of the whole of Modern Painters, and selections from the various volumes, have already been enumerated in the Bibliographical Note to volume i. of the work. Here enumeration is made only of the separate editions of volume ii. First Edition (1846).—The title-page was as follows : Modern Painters. | Volume II. | Containing | Part III. | Sections 1 and 2. Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties | By a Graduate of Oxford (Quotation from Wordsworth, as in vol. i.) | London : | Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill. | 1846. Imperial 8vo, pp. xvi. +217. For the increase of the size of the page, see above, p. xi. On p. v. was the Dedication (here on p. ix.); on pp. vii.-viii. the Advertisement (here p. xi.); Contents, pp. ix.-xvi.; Text, pp. 1-215; Addenda, pp. 216-217 (see here, pp. 36-37, 69-70, 121, 341-342). On the reverse of p. 217 there was the following list of Errata : Issued on April 24, 1846, in green ornamental cloth boards, uniform with the third ed. of volume i. (see Vol. III. of this ed., p. lvii.). Price, 10s. 6d. Second Edition (1848).—Title-page identical with first edition, except that the date is altered, and the words "Second Edition" are added below the quotation: pp. xvi. +220. The text occupies pp. 1-213, and the Addenda pp. 215-220. These Addenda were new notes (see, here, pp. 333-341). Issued on January 1, 1849, in the same coloured boards and at the same price as the first edition. The text was considerably revised throughout (see, e.g., pp. 52, 57, 61, 132, 137, 147, 149, 150, 190, 208, 215, 302, 307). Third Edition (1851).—The alterations of the title-page are (1) "By John Ruskin, | Author of "The Stones of Venice," "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," | etc., etc.," instead of "By a Graduate of Oxford"; (2) "Third Edition, revised by the author," instead of "Second Edition"; (3) new date. Issued in October 1851 in the same style and at the same price as the previous editions. The text was again revised throughout, but the alterations were not very important. 1 [In the text the first two lines had been quoted as one line.] Fourth Edition (1856).—Issued February 15; except for the number of the edition, and the date on the title-page, this was a reprint of the third edition. Price and binding as before. Fifth Edition (1869).—Again a reprint of the third, except for the abovementioned alterations and the substitution of the publisher's new address, "15 Waterloo Place." Price and binding as before. Re-arranged Edition in two volumes (1883).—For the circumstances of this re-issue, see above, p. xlviii. The title-page was as follows: Modern Painters. | Volume II. | "Of Ideas of Beauty," | and | " Of the Imaginative Faculty." | By John Ruskin, LL.D., | Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford; Honorary Fellow of | Corpus Christi College, Oxford; and Slade Professor, | of Fine Art, Oxford. | (Quotation from Wordsworth.) | Re-arranged in two volumes, and revised | By the Author. | Vol. I. (Vol. II.) | George Allen, | Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent | 1883 | [All rights reserved]. Of this edition, vol. i. contained pp. xx. +360; vol. ii., pp. v. +248. Issued in April 1883, crown 8vo, in violet cloth boards, with white-paper black label, 10s. the two volumes. Two thousand copies were printed. The first of these volumes contains a new preface (here, pp. 3-9), and Part III. Section I. of the one-volume edition, re-arranged with various additional notes; the second contains a long Introductory Note (here, pp. 219–222); Part III. Section II. of the one-volume edition, re-arranged with various additional notes; the Addenda; and an Epilogue (here, pp. 343–357). All the new matter of the two-volume edition was included in vol. ii. of the Complete Edition" (1888), the new notes being given at the end; in this edition they are given below the text. The arrangement of sections and chapters was changed in the 1883 edition, as will be seen by comparing the Synopsis of Contents as reprinted below (pp. 11-21) with the following divisions in the 1883 edition : 66 (Vol. I. Contents :-) PART II.1 Of Ideas of Beauty. SECTION I. Of the Theoretic Faculty. (Chs. 1-4 of the one-vol. edition.) SECTION II. Of Typical Beauty. (Chs. 1-7, being chs. 5-11 of the one-vol. ed.) SECTION III. Of Vital Beauty. (Chs. 1-4, being chs. 12-15 of the one-vol. ed.) 1 This was a mistake for Part III., there having already been a Part II. in the first volume of the Work. (Vol. II. Contents :-) PART III. Of the Imaginative Faculty. (Chs. 1-5, being chs. 1-5 of Section II. of the one-vol. ed.). This was perhaps an improved arrangement, but it has been thought better in this edition to retain the former arrangement, as more familiar, and also as agreeing (in the numbering of the Parts) with that of the other volumes of the work. Re-issues of the Re-arranged Edition.-There have been no changes in the text. A second edition, similar to the first, was issued in May 1885. For a third (June 1888) the type was reset and the pagination altered (vol. i. 357 pp. instead of 360; vol. ii., 245 instead of 248); this was issued in dark green cloth. The collation of the fourth (May 1891), fifth (October 1893), and sixth (October 1896) editions agrees with the third. The price remained the same throughout, and of each edition 2000 copies were printed. In July 1897 the price was reduced to 5s., and the two volumes were bound in one cover. An authorised American edition of the re-arranged edition of 1883 appeared in New York in 1891, with an introduction (pp. v.-x.) by Charles Eliot Norton. |