The Elements of Drawing

[\"The Elements of Drawing\" was written during the winter of 1856. The First Edition was published in 1857; the Second followed in the same year, with some additions and slight alterations. The Third Edition consisted of sixth thousand, 1859; seventh thousand, 1860; and eighth thousand, 1861.

The work was partly reproduced in \"Our Sketching Club,\" by the Rev. R. St. John Tyrwhitt, M.A., 1874; with new editions in 1875, 1882, and 1886.

Mr. Ruskin meant, during his tenure of the Slade Professorship at Oxford, to recast his teaching, and to write a systematic manual for the use of his Drawing School, under the title of \"The Laws of Fésole.\" Of this only vol. i. was completed, 1879; second edition, 1882.
As, therefore, \"The Elements of Drawing\" has never been completely superseded, and as many readers of Mr. Ruskin\'s works have expressed a desire to possess the book in its old form, it is now reprinted as it stood in 1859.]