THE KING’S CLASSICS
UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF PROFESSOR I. GOLLANCZ, LITT.D.
“Right Royal Series.”—Literary World.
“We note with pleasure that competent scholars in every case have supervised this Series, which can therefore be received with confidence.”—Athenæum.
The Series of “King’s Classics,” issued under the General Editorship of Professor I. GOLLANCZ, aims at introducing to the larger reading public many noteworthy works of literature not readily accessible in cheap form, or not hitherto rendered into English. Each volume is edited by some expert scholar, and has a summary introduction dealing with the main and essential facts of the literary history of the book; at the end there are the necessary notes for a right understanding of references and textual difficulties; where necessary, there is also a carefully-compiled index. As will be at once seen from the accompanying list, much original and new work has been secured for the Series, and it will be recognised that the “King’s Classics” differentiate themselves in a very marked way from the many reprints of popular books.
It should be noted, however, that while primarily rare masterpieces are included in the “King’s Classics,” modern popular classics, more especially such as have not yet been adequately or at all annotated, are not excluded from the Series.
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NOTE.—At the date of this list, May 1, 1907, Nos. 1-35 were published.
Numbers subsequent to 35 are at press or about to go to press.
The “King’s Classics” are printed on antique laid paper, 16mo. (6 X 4½ inches), gilt tops, and are issued in the following styles and prices. Each volume has a frontispiece, usually in photogravure.
Quarter bound, antique grey boards, ⅙ net.
Red Cloth, ⅙ net.
Quarter Vellum, grey cloth sides, 2/6 net.
Special three-quarter Vellum, Oxford side-papers, gilt tops, silk
marker, 5/- net.
***Nos. 2, 20 and 24 are double volumes. Price, Boards or Cloth, 3/-
net; Quarter Vellum, 5/- net; special three-quarter Vellum, 7/6 net.
1. THE LOVE OF BOOKS: being the Philobiblon of RICHARD DE BURY.
Translated by E.C. THOMAS. Frontispiece, Seal of Richard de Bury (as
Bishop of Durham).
3. THE CHRONICLE OF JOCELIN OF BRAKELOND, MONK OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY: a Picture of Monastic and Social Life in the XIIth Century.
Newly translated, from the original Latin, with notes, table of dates
relating to the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury, and index, by L.C. JANE,
M.A., sometime Exhibitioner in Modern History at University College,
Oxon., and with an Introduction by the Right Rev. Abbot GASQUET.
Frontispiece, Seal of Abbot Samson (A.D. 1200).
***20. THE NUN’S RULE, or Ancren Riwle, in Modern English.
Being the injunctions of Bishop Poore intended for the guidance of nuns or anchoresses, as set forth in the famous thirteenth-century MS. referred to above.
Editor, the Right Rev. Abbot GASQUET. Frontispiece, Seal of Bishop
Poore.
Double volume.