Works Series
	Collected edition (11 vols.) of Ruskin's works (prior to the Library Edition), instigated by Ruskin himself and published by George Allen, 1871–80. In 1871, the first volume, Sesame and Lilies, included an “Advertisement” declaring Ruskin’s opposition to current bookselling practices (see note on George Allen); however, in September 1872, the “Advertisement” was canceled, and a cancellation slip delivered a new purpose: “The series of which this volume forms a part, will contain all that I think useful of my former writings, so joined to my present work as to form a consistent course of teaching . . .” (quoted in Dearden, “Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin,” 51, and see 51–52).
	This edition, meant to be selective, contained no early work. The order is as follows:
Volume 1, Sesame and Lilies (with 1871 preface, as in Works, 18: 31–48)
Volume 2, Munera Pulveris
Volume 3, Aratra Pentelici
Volume 4, The Eagle’s Nest
Volume 5, Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne
Volume 6, The Crown of Wild Olive
Volume 7, Ariadne Florentina
Volume 8, Val D’Arno
Volume 9, The Queen of the Air
Volume 10, The Two Paths
Volume 11, “A Joy for Ever”