‘Charity’, from a fresco by Giotto, Plate III from Fors Claviegera I (Library Edition volume 27)
The latest volumes of the Library Edition have appeared on the Ruskin Library web page. Fors Clavigera, which is in 3 volumes, is subtitled ‘Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain’ which were written between 1871 and 1884. Volume III also includes Ruskin’s index to his letters.
A new Exhibition at the Ruskin Library, running from 23 April until 21 September 2012, to celebrate the centenary of the completion of the publication of the Library Edition.
The thirty-ninth and final volume of the Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin, one of the greatest works in the history of editing, was published in May
1912. This display marks the centenary of its completion, only nine years after the first volume appeared. The editor was Sir Edward Tyas Cook, one of this country’s great but unsung men of letters, who made his mark in journalism as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the Westminster Gazette, and the Daily News from 1895 to 1901. His assistant in the edition of Ruskin – still regarded as definitive – was Alexander 
Wedderburn, a former pupil of Ruskin’s at Oxford.
The Ruskin Library houses the largest collection in the world of material relating to Ruskin, and the display will include books, photographs and archives, alongside many of the drawings and watercolours used as illustrations in the Library Edition, such as Ruskin’s Rosslyn Chapel, Walls of Lucerne 
andBrezon, looking towards Geneva. Illustrated are drawings of Brezon (top) and Lucerne (lower), and the matching plate from the Library Editon.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskinlib/Pages/centenary.html
Volume 33 of the Library Edition – which comprises The Bible of Amiens, and other works intended as part of ‘Our Fathers Have Told Us’ is now on the website.
Another volume of the Library Edition has appeared on our web page.
Volume 35 contains Praeterita, Ruskin’s autobiographical work, first published between 1885 and 1889, and Dilecta, published 1886-7.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ruskinlib/Praeterita
The photograph below, taken at Brantwood in 1896 by Frederick Hollyer, is used as the frontispice and entitled ‘Datur hora quieti’.
Volume 25 of the Library Edition is now online!
Proserpina is subtitled ‘studies of wayside flowers, while the air was yet pure among the Alps and in the… Scotland and England which my father knew’; Love’s Meinie is ‘lectures on Greek and English Birds’. Both include many line drawings and plenty of plates made from Ruskin’s drawings. The frontispiece is a drawing of Brantwood garden by Arthur Severn.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ruskinlib/Proserpina
And remember …… 2012 marks the centenary of the publication of the Library Edition – to mark this the summer exhibition at the Ruskin Library will be
which will run from 23 April until 21 September 2012
Have a look at our new school web pages! Full of drawings by visiting school children, quotes and drawings by John Ruskin and his friends, and information about the schools workshops that we run in the Spring and Autumn terms.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ruskinlib/Pages/schools.html
The General Index, volume 39 of the Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin is now on the Ruskin Library web page!
The volumes are currently being produced out of order – the next to appear Volume 25, which is mainly on ornithology and botany, and includes ‘Love’s Meinie’ and ‘Proserpina’. Following that will be Volume 35 which contains ‘Praeterita’ and ‘Dilecta’.
