Henry Vaughan, Poems:  Methuen’s
      Little Library 0 1 6

  Samuel Butler, Hudibras:  Cambridge
      University Press 0 4 6

  JOHN MILTON, Poetical Works:  Oxford
      Cheap Edition 0 2 0

  JOHN MILTON, Select Prose Works:  Scott
      Library 0 1 0

  Andrew Marvell, Poems:  Methuen’s Little
      Library 0 1 6

  John Dryden, Poetical Works:  Globe
      Edition 0 3 6

  [Thomas Percy], Reliques of Ancient
      English Poetry:  Everyman’s Library
      (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Arber’s "Spenser” Anthology:  Oxford
University Press 0 2 0

Arber’s "Jonson” Anthology:  Oxford
University Press 0 2 0

Arber’s "Shakspere” Anthology:  Oxford
University Press 0 2 0
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There were a number of brilliant minor writers in the seventeenth century whose best work, often trifling in bulk, either scarcely merits the acquisition of a separate volume for each author, or cannot be obtained at all in a modern edition.  Such authors, however, may not be utterly neglected in the formation of a library.  It is to meet this difficulty that I have included the last three volumes on the above list.  Professor Arber’s anthologies are full of rare pieces, and comprise admirable specimens of the verse of Samuel Daniel, Giles Fletcher, Countess of Pembroke, James I., George Peele, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Sackville, Sir Philip Sidney, Drummond of Hawthornden, Thomas Heywood, George Wither, Sir Henry Wotton, Sir William Davenant, Thomas Randolph, Frances Quarles, James Shirley, and other greater and lesser poets.

I have included all the important Elizabethan dramatists except John Marston, all the editions of whose works, according to my researches, are out of print.

In the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods talent was so extraordinarily plentiful that the standard of excellence is quite properly raised, and certain authors are thus relegated to the third, or excluded, class who in a less fertile period would have counted as at least second-class.

SUMMARY OF THE FIRST PERIOD.  L s. d.

19 prose authors in 36 volumes costing 2 1 6 29 poets in 36 " " 3 7 6 __ __ _________ 48 72 L5 9 0

In addition, scores of authors of genuine interest are represented in the anthologies.