Sir Thomas Elyots̓ The defence of good women,

"The defence of good women was first published in 1540. The only known copy of this edition is in the Henry E. Huntington library; this copy is here reproduced in a line-for-line and letter-for-letter reprint."--Introd., p. viii.

The pirates of Panama; or, The buccaneers of America : a true account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and other notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main /

"Originally written in Dutch ... and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche [!] zee rovers ... The first English edition was printed in 1684 ... In arranging this edition, the original English text only has been used, and but few changes made ..." Introd.

Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. /

Mounted mezzotint engravings after portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, executed mainly by Samuel William Reynolds and by numerous other engravers: Richard Parkes Bonington, W.A. Rainger, Frederik Bromley, George H. Every, James Scott, George Sanders, A. Sanders, Joseph W. Edwards, John Richardson Jackson, R. José, H.C. Balding, Charles Tomkins, George Salisbury Shury, Richard Josey, Charles Algernon Tomkins, Arthur Turrell, William Henry Egleton, A.N. Sanders, William T. Hulland, T. Hunt, Stephen H. Gimber, H. Davis, Edwin Hunt, Thomas Lewis Atkinson, T. José, A. Scott.

Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries : from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV /

The life of the author, essay on his works and criticism on his history are tr. from the French of Jean Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye