An elaborate edition of the celebrated volume which was published in its final and definitive form in 1853. This edition contains a long Introduction and copious Notes, textual and explanatory. It also contains in an Appendix all the Poems which Tennyson afterwards omitted.
Jonathan Swift. THE JOURNAL TO STELLA. By Jonathan Swift. Edited by G. A. Aitken. Crown 8vo. 6s.
Chesterfield. THE LETTERS OF LORD CHESTERFIELD TO HIS SON. Edited, with an Introduction by C. Strachey, and Notes by A. Calthrop. Two Volumes. Crown 8vo. 6s. each.
The Works of Shakespeare
General Editor, Edward Dowden, Litt.D.
Messrs. Methuen have in preparation an Edition of Shakespeare in single Plays. Each play will be edited with a full Introduction, Textual Notes, and a Commentary at the foot of the page. The first volumes are:
HAMLET. Edited by Edward Dowden. Demy 8vo. 3s. 6d.
‘Fully up to the level of recent scholarship, both English and German.’—Academy.
ROMEO AND JULIET. Edited by Edward Dowden, Litt. D. Demy 8vo. 3s. 6d.
‘No edition of Shakespeare is likely to prove more attractive and satisfactory than this one. It is beautifully printed and paged and handsomely and simply bound.’—St. James’s Gazette.