Prefaces and prologues to famous books
By: with introductions and notes
Contributors: Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491; Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Heminge, John, ca. 1556-1630; Condell, Henry, d. 1627; Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727; Dryden, John, 1631-1700; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893
Series: Harvard classics -- v. 39; Harvard classics -- v. 39
Publisher: Collier
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Other titles: Famous prefaces
Notes: Title on spine: Famous prefaces

"The five-foot shelf of books."
Table of contents: value: Caxton, W. 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.; value: Calvin, J. Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion.; value: Copernicus, N. Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies.; value: Knox, J. Preface to the History of the reformation in Scotland.; value: Spenser, E. Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene.; value: Raleigh, Sir W. Preface to the History of the world.; value: Bacon, F. Proœmium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instauratio magna, etc. Preface to the Novum organum.; value: (cont.)  Heming, J. Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays.; value: Newton, Sir I. Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.; value: Dryden, J. Preface of Fables, ancient and modern.; value: Fielding, H. Preface to Joseph Andrews.; value: Johnson, S. Preface to the English dictionary. Preface to Shakespeare.; value: Goethe, J.W. von. Introduction to the Propylaen.; value: Wordsworth, W. Prefaces to various volumes of poems. Appendix to Lyrical ballads. Essay supplementary to preface.; value: Hugo, V. Preface to Cromwell.; value: Whitman, W. Preface to Leaves of grass.; value: Taine, H.A. Introduction to the History of English literature