The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners

explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked passage. Error #1 : Page 58: 'Thus, the outline a and the outline d.' 'd' replaced by 'b.' Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN ELEMENTS OF DRAWING AND PERSPECTIVE THE TWO PATHS UNTO THIS LAST MUNERA PULVERIS SESAME AND LILIES ETHICS OF THE DUST NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING IN THREE LETTERS TO BEGINNERS. CONTENTS. page Preface ix LETTER I. On First Practice 1 LETTER II. Sketching from Nature 65 LETTER III. On Color and Composition 106 APPENDIX I. Illustrative Notes 183 APPENDIX II. Things to be Studied 188 ["The Elements of Drawing" was written during the winter of 1856. The First Edition was published in 1857; the Second followed in the same year, with some additions and slight alterations. The Third Edition consisted of sixth thousand, 1859; seventh thousand, 1860; and eighth thousand, 1861. The work was partly reproduced in "Our Sketching Club," by the Rev. R. St. John Tyrwhitt, M.A., 1874; with new editions in 1875, 1882, and 1886. Mr. Ruskin meant, during his tenure of the Slade Professorship at Oxford, to recast his teaching, and to write a systematic manual for the use of his Drawing School, under the title of "The Laws of Fésole." Of this only vol. i. was completed, 1879; second edition, 1882. As, therefore, "The Elements of Drawing" has never been completely superseded, and as many readers of Mr. Ruskin's works have expressed a desire to possess the book in its old form, it is now reprinted as it stood in 1859.] ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. As one or two questions, asked of me since the publication of this work, have indicated points requiring elucidation, I have added a few short notes in the first Appendix. It is not, I think, desirable otherwise to modify the form or add to the matter of a book as it passes through successive editions; I have, therefore, only mended the wording of some obscure sentences; with which exception the text remains, and will remain, in its original form, which I had carefully considered. Should the public find the book useful, and call for further editions of it, such additional notes as may be necessary will be always placed in the first Appendix, where they can be at once referred to, in any library, by the possessors…