Prefaces and prologues to famous books, with introductions, notes and illustrations 39

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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 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, by W. Caxton.--Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion, by J. Calvin, tr. by J. Allen.--Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies, by N. Copernicus.--Preface to the History of the reformation in Scotland, by J. Knox.--Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene, by E. Spenser.--Preface to the History of the world, by Sir W. Raleigh.--Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc., by F. Bacon, translation edited by S. Spedding.--Preface to the Novum organum, by F. Bacon.--Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, by Heminge and Condell.--Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton, tr. by A. Motte --Preface of Fables, ancient and modern, by J. Dryden.--Preface to Joseph Andrews, by H. Fielding.--Preface to the English dictionary; Preface to Shakespeare, by S. 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 W. Wordsworth.--Preface to Cromwell, by V. Hugo.--Preface to Leaves of grass, by W. Whitman.--Introduction to the History of English literature, by H.A. Taine
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