Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Vol. 39

• Introductory Note Editor
  Editorial apparatus
• Prefaces and Epilogues
  William Caxton
  1. Prefaces and Epilogues
  2. Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
  3. Golden Legend
  4. Caton (1483)
  5. Aesop. (1483)
  6. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  7. Malory's King Arthur.
  8. Eneydos
• Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
  John Calvin
  1. Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
  Nicolaus Copernicus
  1. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
• Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland
  John Knox
  1. Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland
• Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie Queene
  Edmund Spenser
  1. Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie Queene
• Preface to the History of the World
  Sir Walter Raleigh
  1. Preface to the History of the World
• Proœmium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna
  Francis Bacon
  1. Pro O E M I U M, Epistlededicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna,
• Preface to the Novum Organum
  Francis Bacon
• Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays
  John Heminge and Henry Condell
  1. Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays
• Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  Sir Isaac Newton
  1. Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern
  John Dryden
  1. Preface to Fables,ancient and Modern
• Preface to Joseph Andrews
  Henry Fielding
  1. Preface to Joseph Andrews
• Preface to the English Dictionary
  Samuel Johnson
  1. Preface to the English Dictionary
• Preface to Shakespeare
  Samuel Johnson
• Introduction to the Propyläen
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  1. Introduction to the Propylaen
• Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems
  William Wordsworth
  1. Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems
• Appendix to Lyrical Ballads
  William Wordsworth
• Preface to Poems (1815)
  William Wordsworth
• Essay Supplementary to Preface
  William Wordsworth
• Preface to Cromwell
  Victor Hugo
  1. Preface to Cromwell
• Preface to Leaves of Grass
  Walt Whitman
  1. Preface to Leaves of Grass
• Introduction to the History of English Literature
  Hippolyte Taine
  1. Introduction to the History of English Literature