Prefaces and prologues to famous books

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Physical Description: 437 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
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Edition: Registered ed.
Publisher: New York : P.F. Collier, c1938.

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Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy / William Caxton -- Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers / William Caxton -- Prologue to Golden legend / William Caxton --Prologue to Caton / William Caxton -- Epilogue to Aesop / William Caxton -- Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales / William Caxton -- Prologue to Malory's King Arthur -- Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos --Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin -- Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus -- Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland / John Knox -- 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 Instauratio magna, etc. / Francis Bacon -- 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 pricipia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton -- Preface to Fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden -- Preface to Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding -- Preface to the English dictionary / Samuel Johnson -- Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Introduction to the Propylaen / J.W. von Goethe -- Prefaces to various volumes of poems / William Wordsworth -- Appendix to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- Essay supplementary to preface / William Wordsworth -- Preface to Cromwell / Victor Hugo -- Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- Introduction to the History of English literature / H.A. Taine.