Prefaces and prologues to famous books : with introductions and notes.

(Contents, cont.) 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 William Wordsworth -- Preface to Cromwell / by Victor Hugo -- Preface to Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman -- Introduction to the History of English literature / by H.A. Taine.

(Contents, cont.) 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 Instaturatio magna, etc. / Francis Bacon, translation edited by J. Spedding -- 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 principia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton, tr. by Andrew Motte.

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 / William Caxton -- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin ; tr. by John Allen -- Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus -- Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland / John Calvin

Mode of access: Internet.

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