FACSIMILE TITLES

TITLE AUTHOR DATE PAGE

First Page of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer 1478 [3]

First Page of the Confessio Amantis Gower 1483 [5]

First Page of the Morte Arthure Malory 1485 [7]

The Booke of Common Praier . . . 1549 [9]

The Vision of Pierce Plowman Langland 1550 [11]

Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland Holinshed 1577 [13]

A Myrrour for Magistrates . . . 1563 [15]

Songes and Sonettes Surrey 1567 [17]

The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex Sackville 1570 [19]

Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit Lylie 1579 [21]

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia Sidney 1590 [23]

The Faerie Queene Spenser 1590 [25]

Essaies Bacon 1598 [27]

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Hakluyt 1598 [29]

The Whole Works of Homer Chapman 1611 [31]

The Holy Bible King James's Version 1611 [33]

The Workes of Benjamin Jonson Jonson 1616 [35]

The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton 1621 [37]

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Shakespeare 1623 [39]

The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy Webster 1623 [41]

A New Way to Pay Old Debts Massinger 1633 [43]

The Broken Heart Ford 1633 [45]

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta Marlowe 1633 [47]

The Temple Herbert 1633 [49]

Poems Donne 1633 [51]

Religio Medici Browne 1642 [53]

The Workes of Edmond Waller Esquire . . . 1645 [55]

Comedies and Tragedies Beaumont and Fletcher 1647 [57]

Hesperides Herrick 1648 [59]

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living Taylor 1650 [61]

The Compleat Angler Walton 1653 [63]

Hudibras Butler 1663 [65]

Paradise Lost Milton 1667 [67]

The Pilgrims Progress Bunyan 1678 [69]

Absalom and Achitophel Dryden 1681 [71]

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Locke 1690 [73]

The Way of the World Congreve 1700 [75]

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Clarendon 1702 [77]

The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. Steele 1710 [79]

The Spectator Addison 1711 [81]

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Defoe 1719 [83]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Swift 1726 [85]

An Essay on Man Pope 1733 [87]

The Analogy of Religion Butler 1736 [89]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Percy 1765 [91]

Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects Collins 1747 [93]

Clarissa Richardson 1748 [95]

The History of Tom Jones Fielding 1749 [97]

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard Gray 1751 [99]

A Dictionary of the English Language Johnson 1755 [101]

Poor Richard's Almanack Franklin 1758 [103]

Commentaries on the Laws of England Blackstone 1765 [105]

The Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith 1766 [107]

A Sentimental Journey Sterne 1768 [109]

The Federalist . . . 1788 [111]

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Smollett 16[7]71 [113]

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Smith 1776 [115]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon 1776 [117]

The School for Scandal Sheridan 1777 [119]

The Task Cowper 1785 [121]

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Burns 1786 [123]

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne White 1789 [125]

Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke 1790 [127]

Rights of Man Paine 1791 [129]

The Life of Samuel Johnson Boswell 1791 [131]

Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth 1798 [133]

A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty Irving 1809 [135]

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Byron 1812 [137]

Pride and Prejudice Austen 1813 [139]

Christabel Coleridge 1816 [141]

Ivanhoe Scott 1820 [143]

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems Keats 1820 [145]

Adonais Shelley 1821 [147]

Elia Lamb 1823 [149]

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Pepys 1825 [151]

The Last of the Mohicans Cooper 1826 [153]

Pericles and Aspasia Landor 1836 [155]

The Pickwick Papers Dickens 1837 [157]

Sartor Resartus Carlyle 1834 [159]

Nature Emerson 1836 [161]

History of the Conquest of Peru Prescott 1847 [163]

The Raven and Other Poems Poe 1845 [165]

Jane Eyre Brontë 1847 [167]

Evangeline Longfellow 1847 [169]

Sonnets Mrs. Browning 1847 [171]

The Biglow Papers Lowell 1848 [173]

Vanity Fair Thackeray 1848 [175]

The History of England Macaulay 1849 [177]

In Memoriam Tennyson 1850 [179]

The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 1850 [181]

Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Stowe 1852 [183]

The Stones of Venice Ruskin 1851 [185]

Men and Women Browning 1855 [187]

The Rise of the Dutch Republic Motley 1856 [189]

Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 [191]

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Darwin 1859 [193]

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Fitzgerald 1859 [195]

Apologia pro Vita Sua Newman 1864 [197]

Essays in Criticism Arnold 1865 [199]

Snow-Bound Whittier 1866 [201]


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