The Camelot Classics.
PROSPECTUS.
The main idea in instituting this Edition is to provide the general reader with a comprehensive Prose Library after his own heart,—an Edition, that is to say, cheap, without the reproach which cheapness usually implies, comprising volumes of shapely form, well printed, well bound, and thoroughly representative of the leading prose writers of all time. Placed thus upon a popular basis, making the principle of literary selection a broadly human rather than an academic one, the Edition will, the Publisher hopes, contest not ineffectually the critical suffrages of the democratic shilling.
As in the Canterbury Poets issued from the same press, to which this aims at being a companion series, the Editing of the volumes will be a special feature. This will be entrusted to writers who will each, in freshly treated, suggestive Introductions, give just that account of the book and its author which will enable the significance of both in life and literature, and their relation to modern thought, to be readily grasped. And where, for the successful rescue of old-time books for modern reading, revision and selection are necessary, the editing will be done with careful zeal and with reverence always for the true spirit of the book. In the first volume a General Introduction by the Editor will appear, explaining more fully the bearing of the series, which, in course of time, it is hoped, will form
A Complete Prose Library for the People.
The Camelot Classics.
New Comprehensive Edition of the Leading Prose Writers.
Edited by ERNEST RHYS.
In SHILLING Monthly Volumes, Crown 8vo; each Volume containing about 400 pages, clearly printed on good paper, and strongly bound in Cloth.
VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED.
ROMANCE OF KING ARTHUR.
By Sir THOMAS MALORY. Edited by Ernest Rhys.
WALDEN.
By HENRY DAVID THOREAU.
With Introductory Note by Will H. Dircks.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. By THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
With Introduction by William Sharp.
LANDOR’S CONVERSATIONS.
With Introduction by Havelock Ellis.
PLUTARCH’S LIVES.
With Introduction by Bernard J. Snell, M.A., B.Sc.
Sir T. Browne’s RELIGIO MEDICI, Etc.
With Introduction by John Addington Symonds.
ESSAYS AND LETTERS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. With Introduction by Ernest Rhys.
PROSE WRITINGS OF SWIFT.
With Introduction by Walter Lewin.
The Series is issued in two styles of Binding—Red Cloth, Cut Edges; and Dark Blue Cloth, Uncut Edges. Either Style, 1s.
London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.