MS I
	W. G. Collingwood assigned roman numeral I to this Red Book in his “Preliminary Note on the Original MSS. of the Poems” for Poems (1891) (Poems [4o, 1891], 1:262; Poems [8o, 1891], 1:263).
	Two decades earlier, Ruskin himself had set the precedent for numbering the Red Books, including this one: at the bottom of “Frontispiece” [Plate] “1” [“Harry and Lucy” Vol 1], he wrote “Red book. No. 3. Sept 8th 1870.” On the same day, he docketed MS IV as “Red book No. 1,” and MS III as “Red book No. 2.” For the meaning of this numbering, see Red Books.
	Apart from these numerical designations, Ruskin’s title—intended originally, it appears, for MS I in its entirety as well as for its main work—is “HARRY AND LUCY / CONCLUDED / BEING THE LAST / PART OF / EARLY LESSONS / in four volumes / vol I / with copper / plates / PRINTED and composed by a little boy / and also drawn” (see “Harry and Lucy,” Vol. 1: Title). This title does not take account of the MS I Poetry Anthology at the end of the manuscript, a feature in addition to “Harry and Lucy” that Ruskin may not have envisioned when he devised the title page. See Discussion, however, for Ruskin’s addition, following the anthology, of a colophon that does account for the contents of MS I as a totality.
	See also System of Title Citation for Major Manuscripts.