System of Title Citation
	Ruskin’s practices of entitling texts in the early manuscripts are so inconsistent that the reader would be confused by citation of literally transcribed titles. For example, because he in some instances capitalized important words in titles but in other instances did not, the latter kinds of titles would, when cited out of context, be indistinguishable from first-line citations; and at the same time, first-line citation is necessary for texts that otherwise have no titles. Therefore, for purposes of routine citation throughout Early Ruskin Manuscripts, each text is assigned a regularized title, which can be identified as such according to a set of conventions:
1.		Quotation marks indicate that the title is Ruskin’s. First and important words are capitalized regardless of Ruskin’s own practice.
2.		Untitled poems are cited by their first lines, which are also placed in quotation marks, but with only the first word and proper nouns capitalized.
3.		Spelling and punctuation are regularized.
4.		Descriptive titles are used where first-line citation is impractical or impossible—for example, in cases where untitled long poems consist of multiple parts, each with its own title, such as the Account of a Tour of the Continent; or in cases where the texts of poems have been all but obliterated, such as the Poem on Mr. Rowbotham. These titles are distinguished from Ruskin’s by the omission of quotation marks, but, where possible, drawn from his own habitual way of referring to the works; for example, in his letters, Ruskin often refers to the Mineralogical Dictionary, although no such title appears on the manuscript of that work itself.
5.		In cases in which Ruskin assigned the same title to more than one text (e.g. “A Fragment,” “A Psalm”), the regularized titles are followed by secondary titles (e.g., 	first-line citations) placed in parentheses.
6.		A parenthetical, secondary title is also used to cite titles originally invented by an editor. For example, W. G. Collingwood tended to assign sentimental titles to poems, sometimes in spite of a very different tone in the work itself. The editors of the Library Edition generally enclosed Collingwood’s editorial titles in brackets, but this practice was inconsistent.

	In the title section for each work, the sequence of elements follows a plan outlined in the Note on the Plan of the Edition: Title.