The principal omission from the above list is The Paston Letters, which I should probably have included had the enterprise of publishers been sufficient to put an edition on the market at a cheap price. Other omissions include the works of Caxton and Wyclif, and such books as Camden’s Britannia, Ascham’s Schoolmaster, and Fuller’s Worthies, whose lack of first-rate value as literature is not adequately compensated by their historical interest. As to the Bible, in the first place it is a translation, and in the second I assume that you already possess a copy.
POETS L s. d.
Beowulf, Routledge’s London Library 0 2 6
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Works: Globe
Edition
0 3 6
Nicolas Udall, Ralph Roister-Doister:
Temple Dramatists
0 1 0
EDMUND SPENSER, Works: Globe Edition 0 3 6
Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde: Caxton Series 0 1 0
Robert Greene, Tragical Reign of Selimus:
Temple Dramatists
0 1 0
Michael Drayton, Poems: Newnes’s
Pocket
Classics
0 8 6
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Works:
New Universal
Library
0 1 0
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Works:
Globe
Edition
0 3 6
Thomas Campion, Poems: Muses’ Library 0 1 0
Ben Jonson, Plays: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
John Donne, Poems: Muses’
Library
(2 vols.)
0 2 0
John Webster, Cyril Tourneur, Plays:
Mermaid Series
0 2 6
Philip Massinger, Plays: Cunningham
Edition
0 3 6
Beaumont and Fletcher, Plays:
a Selection
Canterbury Poets
0 1 0
John Ford, Plays: Mermaid Series 0 2 6
George Herbert, The Temple:
Everyman’s
Library
0 1 0
ROBERT HERRICK, Poems: Muses’
Library
(2 vols.)
0 2 0
Edmund Waller, Poems: Muses’
Library
(2 vols.)
0 2 0
Sir John Suckling, Poems: Muses’ Library 0 1 0
Abraham Cowley, English Poems:
Cambridge
University Press
0 4 6
Richard Crashaw, Poems: Muses’ Library 0 1 0