Praeterita
Subtitle: Outlines of scenes and thoughts perhaps worthy of memory in my past life
By: By John Ruskin ...
Publisher: G. Allen
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Orpington, Kent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: English Essays
Notes: Spines of volumes dated 1886, 1887 and 1888.

Originally issued in parts of one chapter, each with separate t.-p. (chapter I having also a half-title) not included in the paging, which is continuous for each volume.

V. 1 first issued in twelve parts from July 1885 to April 1886, the preface with chapter I, the half-title, title, and contents of v. 1 with chapter XII; also in one volume in 1886, with general t.-p. V. 2 issued in twelve parts from May 1886 to November 1887, the preliminary matter with chapter XII; also in one volume in 1887, with general t.-p. V. 3 issued in four parts from May 1888 to July 1889. A second edition of v. 1, published in parts, 1885-1886, was issued in one volume in 1886, with general t.-p.

This set is made up of the general t.-p. of the first edition of v. 1, chapters I-VIII with separate second edition t.-p.'s, chapters IX-XII with sseparate first edition t.-p.'s, bound as v. 1. The slips of "Advice" are missing from chapters I and X; v. 2, first edition throughout, with general t.-p., and separate t.-p.'s for each chapter; v. 3, chapters I-IV in original covers as issued.