The dates of the contents of MS IA range from 1827 or 1828 to 1842.
	As a bound collection, the compiling and binding of MS IA must have been nearly contemporaneous with the preparation of the first two volumes of the Library Edition. Wedderburn’s remarks about the binding on the title page of the manuscript itself (“bound since the publication of the Poems in 1891 / and may be added to the list of MS. given there, as IA”) is very like the editors’ comment in Ruskin, Works, 2:530 (“this volume has been bound up since Ruskin’s death, and is thus an addition to the list in the Poems, 1891”), suggesting that the collection was compiled shortly prior to publication of volume 2 (1903) of the Library Edition. The fact that Wedderburn’s table of contents for the manuscript is somewhat confused (see Description) further argues for the manuscript’s compilation during the hectic lead-up to initial publication of the Library Edition (see ???).