Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: Part 39 Harvard Classics: v.39 (Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: Vol. 39 Harvard Classics (1909)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766181928 ISBN 13: 9780766181922

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Synopsis

Contents: William Caxton: Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes; Prologue to Golden Legend, Caton, Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur and Virgil's Eneydos. John Calvin: Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Nicolaus Copernicus: Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies. John Knox: Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland. Edmund Spenser: prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie Queene. Sir Walter Raleigh: Preface to the History of the World. Francis Bacon: Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0766181928
• ISBN 13: 9780766181922
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 468
• Editor: Eliot Charles W.