described in the course of this number, had never been engraved or photographed, in any form accessible to the public, until last year, when I commissioned M. Kaltenbacher (6, Passage du Commerce), who had photographed them for M. Viollet-le-Duc, to obtain negatives of the entire series, with the central pedestal of the Christ.

The proofs are entirely satisfactory to me, and extremely honourable to M. Kaltenbacher's skill: and it is impossible to obtain any more instructive and interesting, in exposition of the manner of central thirteenth-century sculpture. I directed their setting so that the entire succession of the quatrefoils might be included in eighteen plates: the front and two sides of the pedestal raise their number to twenty-one: the whole costing in Amiens, at M. Goyer's, 2, Place St. Denis, four napoleons, unmounted, and in London, sold by my agent Mr. Ward (the negatives being my own property) for four pounds; or separately, each five francs at Amiens, and five shillings in London.

Besides these of my own, I have chosen four general views of the cathedral from M. Kaltenbacher's formerly-taken negatives, which, together with the firstnamed series, (twenty-five altogether,) will form a complete body of illustrations for this fourth number of the BIBLE OF AMIENS; costing in all a hundred francs at Amiens, and five pounds forwarded free by post from Mr. Ward's (2, Church Terrace, Richmond, Surrey).

The following list of the plates, with reference to the pages where they are described, will enable any readers to choose what they like: but I have marked with an asterisk those which are especially desirable.

1. (Central Porch) Virtues and Vices (pp. 44-5):Courage, Patience, Gentillesse ;

Fear, Anger, Rudeness.

Christ and Doctors, Return to Nazareth, Amos.

7. (Southern Porch, p. 67):

Obadiah, Solomon, Solomon;

Obadiah, Queen of Sheba, Solomon.

8. (Southern Porch).-Herod and the Magi (p. 67).

9. (Central Porch).-The double quatrefoils of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah * (pp. 50-1).

10. (Central Porch).-The double quatrefoils of Nahum, Daniel, and Ezekiel (p. 51).

11. (Northern Porch) Months and their signs :

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December, January, February, March (p. 62).

12. (Northern Porch) Months and signs:

April, May: Double quatrefoils of Zephaniah (p. 62).

13. (Northern Porch) Months and signs:

Double quatrefoils of Haggai. June, July (p. 62).

14. (Northern Porch) Months and signs:

August, September, October, November (pp. 62-3).

15. (Façade) Double quatrefoils of Hosea, Joel, Amos (pp. 52–3).

*

16. (Façade) Double quatrefoils of Obadiah, Jonah, Micah (pp. 53-4-5). 17. (Façade) Double quatrefoils of Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah* (pp. 55-6).

18. (Façade) Double quatrefoils of Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (pp. 57-8).

19. (Central pedestal, right side)-Lily and Cockatrice* (pp. 34-5).

20. (Central pedestal, left side)-Rose and Adder* (pp. 34-5).

21. (Central pedestal, front)-David. The Lion and Dragon (pp. 33-4).

22. General view of the cathedral from the other bank of the Somme. 23. The South Transept and Flèche.

24. The Porch of St. Honoré.*

25. The Western Porches.*

Second Edition (November 1886).—This shows various alterations, consequent on the completion of the book since the first edition of the "Advice." On p. 1 are the following notice and drop-title ::

N.B.-Intending purchasers will kindly quote the numbers | given in this Advice, and not those in the Appendix to "The Bible of Amiens." | Our Fathers have Told Us. | Part I. | The Bible of Amiens. | Chap. IV. | Interpretations. | (Separate Travellers' Edition, to serve as Guide to the Cathedral.) | Advice by Mr. Ruskin.

The text is slightly revised, as follows:

"The fourth chapter of the BIBLE OF AMIENS is printed 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.

The quatrefoils.. twenty-one [as in ed. 1]: the whole unmounted, sold by my agent Mr. Ward (the negatives being my own property) for four guineas ; or separately, each five shillings.

"Besides these [as in ed. 1] costing in all five guineas, forwarded free by post from Mr. Ward (Bedford Chambers, 28, Southampton Street, Strand, London). Also the photograph of the four scenes from the life of St. Firmin, mentioned on page 8 of Chapter I.; price five shillings.

The following . . . desirable [as in ed. 1].

...

"Who supplies photographs to illustrate Fors Clavigera,' 'The Laws of Fésole,' 'St. Mark's Rest,' Mornings in Florence,' 'The Stones of Venice,' etc., and of whom a list may be obtained on application."

Then follows the list of photographs 1-25, as in ed. 1. In the Appendix (1885) to The Bible of Amiens, however, the numbers of the photographs had been changed; hence the notice given at the head of this second edition of the "Advice." The following table shows the changes :—

Third Edition (August 1897).—At the end of the third edition of the Separate Travellers' Edition of Chapter iv., a third edition of the "Advice" was incorporated (see above, p. 12). The heading now became :

Publisher's Note. | N.B.-Intending purchasers of the photographs | will kindly quote the numbers given in this Advice. | Our Fathers have Told Us. The Bible of Amiens. | (Separate Travellers' Edition, to serve as Guide to the Cathedral, price tenpence.) | Photographs of Amiens | Cathedral.

The text again shows several revisions, thus:—

...

The fourth chapter of the Bible of Amiens '* [as in ed. 2] until the year 1880, when Mr. Ruskin had negatives taken of the entire series, with the central pedestal of the Christ.

"Mr. Ruskin wrote at that time: 'It is impossible to obtain any more instructive and interesting photographs, in exposition of the manner of central thirteenth-century sculpture.'

"The entire succession of the quatrefoils are included in eighteen plates; the front and two sides of the pedestal raise their number to twenty-one.

"Besides these there are four general views of the Cathedral, making twentyfive altogether, which form a complete body of illustrations for the 'Bible of Amiens'; costing in all five guineas; or separately five shillings each. Also the photograph of the four scenes from the life of St. Firmin, mentioned in Chapter I.; price five shillings.

"The following list of the photos, with reference to the pages where they are described, will enable any readers to choose what they like; but those which are specially desirable are marked with an asterisk.

"The Photographs, -as well as the complete book, price 5s., which contains four steel engravings and the plan of the Western Porches-may be obtained of George Allen, 156, Charing Cross Road, London."

Then follows the list of photographs 1-25, the numbers being now changed so as to agree with the arrangement in the Appendix to The Bible of Amiens. At the end of the last page is the date "August 1897" and Messrs. Ballantyne's imprint.

Fourth Edition (May 1898).--This is a reprint of the edition last described, the pages being numbered 1-4. The setting of the heading shows some trifling alterations, and at the end of p. 4 is (instead of the printers' imprint): "George Allen, | 156, Charing Cross Road, London | May 1898." This "Advice" is still current, and it is the numbers given in the Appendix to The Bible of Amiens (and in eds. 3 and 4 of the "Advice") that should be quoted in ordering the photographs.

An edition set up in France.-This (called in the heading "Second Edition") is a combination of the English editions 2 and 3, with an addition, and a blunder, of its own. The heading corresponds with that of ed. 2 (except for the addition of "Second Edition"). The text also follows that of ed. 2, except that it adds the following note on p. 1: "This chapter and the entire Work, containing four steel engravings and plan of the Western Porches, price 6s., may be obtained of George Allen, Orpington, Kent, and 8, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London." The list of photographs follows the numbers in the Appendix to The Bible of Amiens; but although this alteration is made, the prefatory note is retained, as if the two lists still differed.

PHOTOGRAPHS

The photographs mentioned in the "Advice" were thus sold by Mr. Ward (as announced in successive issues of his List):

The Life of St. Firmin

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each £0 50

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extra 2 20

The set mounted on thick toned boards, half morocco, lettered folio,

leather flaps

A French translation of The Bible of Amiens appeared in 1903, with the following title-page :

John Ruskin | La | Bible d'Amiens | Traduction, Notes et Préface | par Marcel Proust | Paris | Société du Mercure de France | XXVI., Rue de Coudé, XXVI.

Issued in the ordinary yellow paper covers. Price 3 fr. 50, pp. 349. M. Proust's introduction (“Avant-Propos") occupies pp. 9-14, and his Preface ("Notre-dame d'Amiens selon Ruskin"), pp. 15–95.

A fourth edition of the translation is dated 1904. There were also issued seven copies on "papier de Hollande."

There have been several unauthorized American editions of The Bible of Amiens.

Reviews of The Bible of Amiens appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, July 21, 1883 ("With Mr. Ruskin at Amiens"; see also an illustrated article in the Pall Mall Gazette of August 10, 1886); and in the Art Journal, N.S., vol. ii. pp. 205-207.

Varia Lectiones.-The principal variations in the text, between the several editions issued by Ruskin, are those noted in the list of "Corrigenda" issued in June 1885 with Part V. These related for the most part to chapters i. and ii., both of which were already in a second edition; the last four corrections were of mistakes which had escaped notice in the revision in 1885 of Chapter iv. References to the present edition have been added to the list, above (p. 10), and it is therefore unnecessary to repeat the variations here.

These corrections (mainly, though not entirely, of misprints) were noted by Ruskin, when revising the book in 1885. At the same time he made a few revisions in Chapters iii. and iv. The following is a list of them (not including some minor matters of punctuation and references) :—

Chapter iii. § 1, line 6, the word "circumstances" was placed in inverted commas. § 15, line 8, "its" was italicised. § 19, the note † was added. § 28, the note was added. § 29, note, the last words (in brackets) were added. § 33, lines 3, 4, "the desire. . . universal" were italicised. § 39, line 4, presentation . . . authority were italicised. § 39, note t, last line, see p. 110 n. § 48, note, lines 23-26, in ed. 1 only the word "rather was italicised.

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Chapter iv. The author's note to § 1 read in ed. 1: "I have lost my reference to the place, in his great work, the Dictionary of Architecture, where this expression occurs; but in the article 'Cathédrale,' where a complete account of the plan and building is given, it is called (p. 330) L'église ogivale par excellence.""

In the author's note to § 2, the last passage was not italicised.
In § 3, last line but one, "compatriot" was "compatriote."

§ 4, line 5, "that" appeared before "in the."

§ 5, line 15, "trained" was not italicised.

§ 12, lines 16 and 17, ed. 1 had "... about the edifice. Robert.. no stone of it. But when ."; line 23, "not at all that of" for "not the least like that of."

§ 14, author's footnote, "See my own first chapter" for "See the first chapter of this book."

§ 23, author's footnote, after "Les deux doigts qui manquent" were the words "(do they so still?)”

§ 24, the fourth line of Bishop Everard's epitaph ran: "A pious man, the protector of the afflicted and the widow; of the orphan . . .' § 26, the second line of Bishop Geoffroy's epitaph ran: "Whether he seem less than, or like to, all of us.”

§ 29, line 14, "James the less" for "James the Bishop."

§ 36, in the author's footnote t, the reference to Viollet-le-Duc was "... article 'Sculpture""; footnote, line 5, "... not ranks, except that the cherubim are in the Byzantine circle first. .."

In SS 39 seq., black letters were substituted on the occasion of this revision.

§ 39, 6 B, "Heresy" instead of "Atheism."

§ 40, 25 B, "locusts" instead of "beasts."

§ 42, the author's footnote ended, " . the photograph, No. 4 of my series. (See terminal announcements.)"

§ 43, line 2, after "minor prophets,"

photographs, Nos. 15 to 18."

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; see in my series of

§ 44, the saints enumerated had no numbers; neither had the months in § 47.

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§ 47, lines 12 and 13 ran : as I have arranged them, this series of signs and months are Nos. 11-14, each containing six quatrefoils reading round the porch from left to right; and the bas-reliefs may be studied in them nearly as well. . . .”

§ 49, author's footnote, the reference to Stones of Venice was erroneously to "first" volume.

S$ 50, 51, there were no numbers to the statues and quatrefoils (except that those now numbered 35, 36, 37 were numbered "1, 2, 3."

§ 50, Nos. 30, 31, 33, "The Madonna" in each case instead of "Virgin."

Next, a few alterations were made by Mr. Wedderburn in editing the Small Edition (see above, p. 10) for Ruskin in 1897. Thus, the note to ch. i. § 34 was then added. In ch. ii. § 47 n., line 4, "engineer" (in the quotation from Gibbon) was corrected to "engineers." § 49, a reference to Gibbon "(6,297)"-now restored-was omitted. The sections in ch. i. were numbered. The references to the pages in Appendix I. were altered (see above, p. 11). An explanatory note was added towards the beginning of Appendix II.

In the present edition, the following alterations and corrections (other than minor matters of spelling, punctuation, and references) have been made:

Quotations from other books are as usual in this edition set in smaller

type.

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