Excerpt from The Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 21 In connexion with the Art Collection Ruskin printed at various dates several Catalogues, Notes, and Instructions. He also wrote, and deposited in two ms. Books in his Drawing School at Oxford, 8. Large number of additional Notes. These have not hitherto been printed. In this volume all the printed Catalogues, Notes, and Instructions are included, and with them are now incorporated all the ms. Notes. The Bibliography Of this section Of Ruskin's work is extremely intricate, and it is not necessary to trouble the reader in this Introduction with the details. A general statement will be found at p. 1, and fuller Bibliographical Notes, given in the usual detail (very necessary in this case for the identification by collectors of the several editions), are supplied at pp. 5, 55, 161. It may here be stated generally that the arrangement of the present volume has been governed by two con siderations. In accordance with the general scheme Of the edition it includes all Ruskin's writings on the Art Collection, in whatever form they may have appeared; but it also serves the purpose of a Catalogue of that Collection, as it may now be seen at Oxford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.