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

ISBN 10: 0766181928 / ISBN 13: 9780766181922

Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: v.39: Vol. 39 Harvard Classics (1909)
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0766181928
• ISBN 13: 9780766181922
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.