In the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods talent was so extraordinarily plentiful that the standard of excellence is quite properly raised, and certain authors are thus relegated to the third, or excluded, class who in a less fertile period would have counted as at least second-class.
SUMMARY OF THE FIRST PERIOD.
£ s. d.
19 prose authors in 36 volumes costing 2 1 6
29 poets in 36 " " 3 7 6
48 72 £5 9 0
In addition, scores of authors of genuine interest are represented in the anthologies.
The prices given are gross, and in many instances there is a 25 per cent. discount to come off. All the volumes can be procured immediately at any bookseller's.