ii.  Works not originally written in English, such as the works of that very great philosopher Roger Bacon, of whom this isle ought to be prouder than it is.  To this rule, however, I have been constrained to make a few exceptions.  Sir Thomas More’s Utopia was written in Latin, but one does not easily conceive a library to be complete without it.  And could one exclude Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia, the masterpiece of the greatest physicist that the world has ever seen?  The law of gravity ought to have, and does have, a powerful sentimental interest for us.

iii.  Translations from foreign literature into English.

Here, then, are the lists for the first period: 

  PROSE WRITERS L s. d.

  Bede, Ecclesiastical History:  Temple
      Classics. 0 1 6

  Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur: 
      Everyman’s Library (4 vols.) 0 4 0

  Sir Thomas More, Utopia:  Scott Library 0 1 0

  George Cavendish, Life of Cardinal
      Wolsey:  New Universal Library. 0 1 0

  Richard Hakluyt, Voyages:  Everyman’s
      Library (8 vols.) 0 8 0

  Richard Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity: 
      Everyman’s Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

  Francis Bacon, Works:  Newnes’s Thinpaper
      Classics. 0 2 0

  Thomas Dekker, Gull’s Horn-Book:  King’s
      Classics. 0 1 6

  Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Autobiography: 
      Scott Library. 0 1 0

  John Selden, Table-Talk:  New Universal
      Library. 0 1 0

  Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:  New Universal
      Library. 0 1 0

  James Howell, Familiar Letters:  Temple
      Classics (3 vols.) 0 4 6

  Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, etc.: 
      Everyman’s Library. 0 1 0

  Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living and Holy
      Dying:  Temple Classics (3 vols.) 0 4 6

  Izaak Walton, Compleat Angler:  Everyman’s
      Library. 0 1 0

  John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress: 
      World’s Classics. 0 1 0

Sir William Temple, Essay on Gardens
of Epicurus:  King’s Classics. 0 1 6

John Evelyn, Diary:  Everyman’s
Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Samuel Pepys, Diary:  Everyman’s
Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
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L2 1 6