The Introduction printed in the preceding volume deals with the contents of the Letters included in the present volume also; here, therefore, it is only necessary to give the usual particulars about the Illustrations.

These are of two kinds—portraits, and reproductions of Ruskin's drawings. The frontispiece is from a photograph taken in 1885, showing Ruskin standing against his garden-wall at Brantwood. Plate VIII is from Sir Hubert von Herkomer's portrait of Ruskin, now in the National Portrait Gallery. This, with the frontispiece to Vol. XXXVIII., completes the series of portraits of Ruskin, included in this edition, by eminent artists. These, in order of approximate date, are—by James Northcote, R.A., in 1822 (Plates II. and III. in Vol. XXXV.); by George Richmond, R.A., in 1843 (frontispiece to Vol. III.); by Millais in 1853 (frontispiece to Vol. XII. and Plate A in Vol. XXXVI.); by George Richmond in 1857 (frontispiece to Vol. XVI.); by George Richmond again, a little later (Plate C in Vol. XXXVI.); by Rossetti in about 1861 (Plate B in Vol. XXXVI.); by Ruskin himself in 1861 (frontispiece to Vol. XVII.); by Mr. Creswick (bust) in 1877 (Vol. XXX. Plate III.); by Herkomer in 1879; by Boehm (bust) in 1880 (Plate LXX. in Vol. XXL); and lastly by Mr. Severn, in 1898 (Vol. XXXVIII.).