[Bibliographical Note.—The first Catalogue issued by Ruskin included matter which he afterwards redistributed into two separate catalogues—(1) one dealing with the Standard and Reference Series, (2) the other with the Educational Series.

Of the first combined Catalogue there was only one edition, issued in 1870. The title-page reads:—

Octavo, pp. 63. On the reverse of the title-page is the imprint: “London | Macmillan and Co. | [Device of the Clarendon Press] | Publishers to the University of Oxford.” Text of the Catalogue, pp. 3–63. The headline on the left-hand pages is “Catalogue” throughout; on the right-hand pages, (5–27) “Standard Series,” (29–63) “Educational Series.” Issued in pale blue paper wrappers, with the title-page reproduced upon the front, except that the words “Price One Shilling” are substituted for “[All rights reserved].”

This is the Catalogue of the Collection as Ruskin had arranged it at the outset, and the one to which he refers in his Inaugural Course. It is not here reprinted in its original form, because its contents (with few exceptions) were afterwards redistributed in the two catalogues next described.