Footnote 1, Chapter 11, of the author's Ruskin's Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works, which Cornell University Press published in 1985. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
John Dixon Hunt (The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin [New York: Viking, 1982]) has usefully integrated Ruskin's interest in cataloging with his attempts to order and plan his books (pp. 338-341). For a sketch of a Ruskinian design for a display cabinet, see p. 361; see also Robert Hewison, John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976), 173-175.
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