Fors clavigera
Subtitle: Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain
By: By John Ruskin ...
Contributors: Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
Publisher: G. Allen
Published: 1871
Place of publication: Orpington, Kent
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life; Aesthetics; Social problems; Social conditions
Notes: First edition; 96 letters, originally issued separately, in 2 series, but subsequently collected into 8 vols. of 12 letters each, to which general title-pages were prefixed. Each letter was in original paper covers, with title upon the front (here bound in); only letters 1-20 of first series and 4-12 of "New series" were issued with special title-pages. The first 36 letters are paged separately, the remainder, by volume.

Vols. II and IV contain a "Supplementary number" (Index to vol. I-II and III-IV respectively).

Imprint of letters varies.

Illus. in v. 8 by Kate Greenaway.

Compiled by John Pincher Faunthorpe.

The index is based on the second edition of the earlier letters which vary in their pagination from the first edition.  cf. Ruskin's Works, ed. by E. T. Cook, v. 29, p. 605-606.