II - “ROADSIDE SONGS OF TUSCANY. TRANSLATED AND ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCESCA ALEXANDER, AND EDITED BY JOHN RUSKIN” (1885)

Summary

[Bibliographical Note.—This work was originally published in Ten Parts, each with its separate title-page.

Part I. (issued April 1884).—The title-page was as follows:—

Roadside Songs of Tuscany. | Translated and Illustrated by | Francesca Alexander, | and edited by | John Ruskin, LL.D. | Honorary Student of Christ Church, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, | and Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford. | Part I. | The Story of Lucia. | With author's and editor's Preface, | and Two Illustrations | (Beatrice of the Field of the Alder-trees. | Santa Zita: the Miracle at the Well). | George Allen, | Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. | 1884.

Medium quarto, pp. 1–26. On the reverse of the title-page was the imprint, “Printed by | Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Limited, | London and Aylesbury.” Author's Preface, pp. 1–6; Editor's Preface, pp. 7–15; p. 16, blank; “Introductory. The Story of Lucia,” pp. 17–25; p. 26, blank.

Issued in cream-coloured hand-made paper wrappers, with the title-page (enclosed in a single ruled frame) repeated upon the front; the words “Price Seven Shillings” being added below the rule. These remarks apply also to the remaining Parts, except that the setting upon the wrappers of Parts viii. and x. varied slightly from that upon the title-pages. Of each Part 2000 copies were printed.