This section supplements the Bibliographical Notes in previous volumes by articulars of reprints, translations, new editions, etc., which appeared after the several Notes had gone to press.

A few editions, etc., of earlier date, which had escaped previous notice, are also included.

Full details are given in the case of authorised and copyright editions only. In 1907 (seven years after the author's death) the copyright of many of Ruskin's books in their original form expired, and numerous non-copyright editions began to appear. The publishers of these, in order to keep on the safe side of the law, issued Ruskin's books without his later revisions. These, as the Bibliographical Notes, etc., in the present Edition have shown, were often very numerous and important. A controversy thereupon took place in the public press upon the literary morality of this proceeding; the Saturday Review, on Feb. 9, 1907, and in subsequent articles, calling attention to the fact that under the existing law “authors who have become English classics and a great national possession have no protection in what was most precious to them—their literary reputation. Any one can print and sell them, and the law is indifferent whether the flaws and faults in their work, which they discovered and removed, are reproduced or not.”