Prefaces to four seventeenth-century romances
By: with an introduction by Charles Davies.
Contributors: Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.; Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Series: Publication (Augustan Reprint Society) -- no. 42
Publisher: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Subjects: English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Notes: "Parthenissa is reproduced ... from the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library, the other works from the copies in the British Museum."
Table of contents: Preface to Parthenissa (1655) / Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill.; Apologie for romances, prefixed to Aretina, the serious romance (1660) / Sir George Mackenzie.; Preface to Bentivolio and Urania (1660) / Nathaniel Ingelo.; Preface to Theodora and Didymus (1687) / Robert Boyle.