Prefaces and prologues to famous books
Subtitle: with introductions and notes.
Edition: Registered ed., Deluxe ed.
Series: The Harvard classics
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son Corp.
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Prefaces.; Prologues and epilogues.
Other titles: Famous prefaces.
Table of contents: title: Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy / William Caxton; title: Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers / William Caxton; title: Prologue to Golden legend / William Caxton; title: Prologue to Caton / William Caxton; title: Epilogue to Aesop / William Caxton; title: Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales / William Caxton; title: Prologue to Malory's King Arthur; title: Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos; title: Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin; title: Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus; title: Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland / John Knox; title: Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser; title: Preface to the History of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh; title: Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instauratio magna, etc. / Francis Bacon; title: Preface to the Novum organum / Francis Bacon; title: Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays / Heminge and Condell; title: Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis pricipia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton; title: Preface to Fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden; title: Preface to Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding; title: Preface to the English dictionary / Samuel Johnson; title: Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson; title: Introduction to the Propylaen / J.W. von Goethe; title: Prefaces to various volumes of poems / William Wordsworth; title: Appendix to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth; title: Essay supplementary to preface / William Wordsworth; title: Preface to Cromwell / Victor Hugo; title: Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman; title: Introduction to the History of English literature / H.A. Taine.