MS IB
	The editors of the Library Edition designated this bound manuscript as MS IB, fitting it into the series of manuscripts as numbered by W. G. Collingwood in his “Preliminary Note on the Original MSS. of the Poems” for Poems (1891). Collingwood had omitted it, the editors explained, because its existence was unknown at Brantwood until after Ruskin’s death in 1900 (Ruskin, Works, 2:530): see Provenance.
	Better known than this numerical designation is Ruskin’s original title, intended both for the manuscript and for the sole work it contains: “The Puppet Show.” The title page for this work and thus for the manuscript as a whole reads: “THE PUPPET SHOW / OR / AMUSING CHARACTERS / FOR CHILDREN / WITH COLORED PLATES / BY JOHN RUSKIN / 1829.”
	See also System of Title Citation for Major Manuscripts.