Chapter XIII — AN ENGLISH LIBRARY: PERIOD III
The catalogue of necessary authors of this third and last period being so long, it is convenient to divide the prose writers into Imaginative and Non-imaginative.
In the latter half of the period the question of copyright affects our scheme to a certain extent, because it affects prices. Fortunately it is the fact that no single book of recognised first-rate general importance is conspicuously dear. Nevertheless, I have encountered difficulties in the second rank; I have dealt with them in a spirit of compromise. I think I may say that, though I should have included a few more authors had their books been obtainable at a reasonable price, I have omitted none that I consider indispensable to a thoroughly representative collection. No living author is included.
Where I do not specify the edition of a book the original copyright edition is meant.
PROSE WRITERS: IMAGINATIVE.
£ s. d.
SIR WALTER SCOTT, Waverley, Heart of Midlothian, Quentin Durward,
Redgauntlet, Ivanhoe: Everyman's Library (5 vols.) 0 5 0
SIR WALTER SCOTT, Marmion, etc.: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
Charles Lamb, Works in Prose and Verse: Clarendon Press (2 vols.) 0 4
0
Charles Lamb, Letters: Newnes's Thin-Paper Classics 0 2 0
Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations: Scott Library 0 1
0
Walter Savage Landor, Poems: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
Leigh Hunt, Essays and Sketches: World's Classics 0 1 0
Thomas Love Peacock, Principal Novels: New Universal Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Scott Library 0 1 0
Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log: Macmillan's Illustrated Novels 0 2
6
Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy: Everyman's Library 0 1
0
John Galt, Annals of the Parish: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Susan Ferrier, Marriage: Routledge's edition 0 2 0
Douglas Jerrold, Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures: World's Classics 0 1
0
Lord Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii: Everyman's Library 0 1
0
William Carleton, Stories: Scott Library 0 1 0
Charles James Lever, Harry Lorrequer: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Harrison Ainsworth, The Tower of London: New Universal Library 0 1 0
George Henry Borrow, Bible in Spain, Lavengro: New Universal Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Lord Beaconsfield, Sybil, Coningsby: Lane's New Pocket Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
W. M. THACKERAY, Vanity Fair, Esmond: Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2
0
W. M. THACKERAY, Barry Lyndon, and Roundabout Papers, etc.:
Nelson's New Century Library 0 2 0
CHARLES DICKENS, Works: Everyman's Library (18 vols.) 0 18
0
Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Framley Parsonage: Lane's New Pocket Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Henry Kingsley, Ravenshoe: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Professor,
and Poems: World's Classics (4 vols.) 0 4 0
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights: World's Classics 0 1 0
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford: World's Classics 0 1 0
Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Brontë 0 2 6
George Eliot, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss: Everyman's Library (3 vols.) 0 3 0
G. J. Whyte-Melville, The Gladiators: New Universal Library 0 1
0
Alexander Smith, Dreamthorpe: New Universal Library 0 1 0
George Macdonald, Malcolm 0 1 6
Walter Pater, Imaginary Portraits 0 6 0
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White 0 1 0
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Samuel Butler, Erewhon: Fifield's Edition 0 2 6
Laurence Oliphant, Altiora Peto 0 3 6
Margaret Oliphant, Salem Chapel: Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Richard Jefferies, Story of My Heart 0 2 0
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland: Macmillan's Cheap Edition 0 1
0
John Henry Shorthouse, John Inglesant: Macmillan's Pocket Classics 0 2
0
R. L. Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, Virginibus Puerisque: Pocket Edition (2 vols.) 0 4 0
George Gissing, The Odd Women: Popular Edition (bound) 0 0 7
£5 0 1
Names such as those of Charlotte Yonge and Dinah Craik are omitted intentionally.
PROSE WRITERS: NON-IMAGINATIVE.