By John Evelyn, the famous diarist. Re-edited from the edition of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. Frontispiece, Portrait of Margaret Godolphin engraved on copper.
15. The Falstaff letters.
Editor, James white, possibly with the assistance of Charles Lamb, cf. the Introduction. Frontispiece, Sir John Falstaff dancing to Master Brooks’ fiddle, from the original edition.
14. Early lives of Dante.
Comprising Boccaccio’s Life of Dante, Leonardo Bruni’s Life of Dante, and other important contemporary records.
Translated and edited by the Rev. Philip H. WICKSTEED. Frontispiece, The Death-mask of Dante.
46. Dante’s Vita NUOVA.
The Italian text with D.G. ROSSETTI’S translation on the opposite page. Introduction and notes by Professor H. OELSNER Ph.D., Lecturer in Romance Literature, Oxford University. Frontispiece after the original water-colour sketch for “Dante’s Dream,” by D.G. Rossetti.
12. The story of Cupid and psyche.
From “The Golden Ass” of Apuleius, translated by W. ADLINGTON (1566), edited by W.H.D. Rouse, Litt.D. With frontispiece representing the “Marriage of Cupid and Psyche,” after a gem now in the British Museum.
23. CICERO’S “Friendship,” “Old age,” And “SCIPIO’S dream.”
From early translations. Editor, W.H.D. Rouse, Litt.D. Frontispiece, “Scipio, Laelius and Cato conversing,” from a fourteenth-century Ms.
***2. Six dramas of Calderon.
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Editor,
H. OELSNER, M.A., Ph.D.
Frontispiece, Portrait of Calderon, from an etching
by M. EGUSQUIZA.
Double volume.
42. SWIFT’S BATTLE OF THE BOOKS.
Edited, and with notes and introduction. Frontispiece.
38. WALPOLE’S CASTLE OF OTRANTO.
The introduction of Sir WALTER SCOTT. Preface
by Miss C. SPURGEON.
Frontispiece, Portrait of Walpole, after a contemporary
engraving.
30. GEORGE ELIOT’S SILAS MARNER.
Frontispiece, Portrait of George Eliot, from a water-colour
drawing by Mrs.
CHARLES BRAY. Introduction by RICHARD GARNETT.
31. GOLDSMITH’S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
Introduction by RICHARD GARNETT. Frontispiece,
Portrait of Oliver
Goldsmith.
32. PEG WOFFINGTON.
By CHARLES READE. Frontispiece, Portrait of Peg
Woffington. Introduction by
RICHARD GARNETT.
16. POLONIUS, a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances.
By EDWARD FITZGERALD. With portrait of Edward FitzGerald from the miniature by Mrs. E.M.B. RIVETT-CARNAC as frontispiece; notes and index. Contains a preface by EDWARD FITZGERALD, on Aphorisms generally.