A 12 × 18.5 cm, pre-ruled notebook, covered with greenish marbled boards, half-bound in chocolate calf, and gilt (the same binding as that described by W. G. Collingwood [Poems (4o, 1891), 1:263; Poems (8o, 1891), 1:264]). The leaves measure 11 × 17.7 cm.
Collation
	Following and not including the marbled front endpaper: three blank leaves + 167 pp. as numbered by Ruskin (with p. 1 starting on a recto, and with p. 37 given twice) + 3 blank leaves + back marbled endpaper.
	The three leaves at the beginning and end of the notebook are unruled and, unlike the ruled leaves that make up the main part of the notebook, bear the watermark “Smith & A[(?)] / 18[(?)].” This difference in papers might suggest a rebinding of MS V, but the worn marbled boards appear original, as do the leather corners. Also, the edges of the paper were marbled in a color that may once have matched the boards. It seems likely, therefore, that MS V has come down to us in the same binding in which Ruskin first used it.
Battle of Waterloo: A Play in Two Acts, with Other Small Poems
	A handmade pamphlet with this title, its pages disassembled, is tipped in at the back of MS V. Originally, the pamphlet formed no part of MS V, and it must not have been inserted when Collingwood described MS V, as he does not mention it. (See “Battle of Waterloo: A Play in Two Acts” for the likelihood that Collingwood was unaware of this pamphlet at all when compiling Poems [1891].)
	The pamphlet was probably inserted by Alexander Wedderburn, and no later than 1903, since Collingwood’s “Notes on the Original MSS. of Poems,” as elaborated in the Library Edition, adds to the description of MS V: “In this book . . . are now inserted the leaves of a thin paper book” containing “Battle of Waterloo: A Play in Two Acts” and other works (Ruskin, Works, 2:531). The addition is mentioned also on a leaf tipped in between the marbled front endpapers of MS V; like similar leaves in some of the Red Books, these hold a clipping from Poems (1891) describing MS V, along with brief remarks penned probably by Wedderburn. It is perplexing why this pamphlet was not included in MS IA, a collection compiled after Collingwood’s editing of Poems (1891), just as it is perplexing, and intriguing, why the contents of MS IA were omitted from MS XI.
	The pamphlet requires a description of its own:
	Most of the booklet’s leaves have been cut at the fold and tipped separately onto successive pages of the notebook. If nothing is lacking—and only a front portion of cover, made of heavier paper, has likely disappeared—the booklet consists of 8 leaves that were folded once to form 16 pp., 10 x 16 cm. The innermost fold, leaves 4–5, remains intact, tending to confirm how the booklet was constructed. Ruskin numbered the pages 1–14, starting with 2r.
	In addition to this gathering, a back cover remains that is white on the inside, facing p. 16, and bright pink on the outer side, and that looks to be the same age as the other leaves. No matching front cover is extant. Nothing is written on the back cover, but it presumably formed part of the pamphlet when the editors discovered the little anthology; otherwise, they would have had no reason to include it. There is no assurance, however, that Ruskin himself was responsible for the pink cover, when he constructed the pamphlet in 1829, and there is no way of knowing what, if anything, might have been written or drawn on the front cover.