[Bibliographical Note.—The Poetry of Architecture first appeared serially, in The Architectural Magazine (1837—38), as indicated below in footnotes to the successive chapters. The papers were first collected in book form in 1873, in an unauthorised edition, by an American publisher (John Wiley & Son, New York); the volume was entitled “The Poetry of Architecture, Cottage, Villa, etc., to which is added Suggestions on Works of Art. With numerous illustrations. By Kata Phusin (Nom de plume of John Ruskin).” The only authorised edition was issued in England in 1893. The title page was as follows:—

Large Post Quarto, pp. xii. +261. Chromolithograph frontispiece, 14 photogravure plates, and 14 other illustrations. A special edition of 300 copies on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper, with the Plates on India paper, was issued at the price of Two and a Half Guineas, bound in Half Parchment with dark green cloth sides; the ordinary edition of 2000 copies, with all the illustrations, at the price of One Guinea, cased in green cloth. Prefatory Notes, signed “The Editor” (W. G. Collingwood), occupied pp. v.–viii.