With Introductions and Notes.

Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy. -- Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. -- Prologues to Golden Legend, Caton, Malory's King Arthur, Virgil's Eneydos. -- Epilogue to Aesop and Proem Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / by William Caxton. -- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion / by John Calvin (Translated by John Allen) -- Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies / by Nicolaus Copernicus. -- Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland / by John Knox. -- Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene / by Edmund Spenser. -- Preface to the History of the World / by Sir Walter Raleigh. -- Proemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, Etc. (Translation Edited by J. Spedding) and Preface to the Novum Organum / by Francis Bacon. -- Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays / by Heminge and Condell. -- Preface to the Philosophiae Principia Mathematica (Translated by Andrew Motte) / by Isaac Newton. -- Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern / by John Dryden. -- Preface to Joseph Andrews / by Henry Fielding. -- Preface to The English Dictionary and Preface to Shakespeare / by Samuel Johnson. -- Introduction to The Propylaen / by J. W. von Goethe. -- Preface to Various Volumes of Poems, Appendix to Lyrical Ballads and Essay Supplementary to Preface / by William Wordsworth. -- Preface to Cromwell / by Victor Hugo. -- Preface to Leaves of Grass / by Walt Whitman. -- Introduction to the History of English Literature / by H. A. Taine.