Prefaces and prologues to famous books /
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New York :
P.F. Collier,
[1910]
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| Series: | Harvard classics ;
v. 39. |
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Table of Contents:
- Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy ; Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers ; Prologue to Golden legend ; Prologue to Caton ; Epilogue to Aesop ; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales ; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur ; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos / William Caxton
- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin ; translated by John Allen
- Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus
- Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland / John Calvin.
- Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene / Edmund Spenser
- Preface to the History of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh
- Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc. / Francis Bacon ; translation edited by J. Spedding
- Preface to the Novum organum / Francis Bacon
- Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays / Heminge and Condell
- Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton ; translated by Andrew Motte.
- Preface of Fables, ancient and modern / by John Dryden
- Preface to Joseph Andrews / by Henry Fielding
- Preface to the English dictionary ; Preface to Shakespeare / by Samuel Johnson
- Introduction to the Propylaen / by J.W. von Goethe-- Prefaces to various volumes of poems ; Appendix to Lyrical ballads ; Essays supplementary to preface / by William Wordsworth
- Preface to Cromwell / by Victor Hugo
- Preface to Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman
- Introduction to the History of English literature / by H.A. Taine.