Small Pott 8vo. Each Volume, cloth, 1s. 6d. net; leather, 2s. 6d. net.
A series of small books under the above title, containing some of the famous works in English and other literatures, in the domains of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres. The series also contains volumes of Selections in prose and verse.
The books are edited with the most sympathetic and scholarly care. Each one contains an introduction which gives (1) a short biography of the author; (2) a critical estimate of the book. Where they are necessary, short notes are added at the foot of the page.
Each volume has a photogravure frontispiece, and the books are produced with great care.
- Anon. ENGLISH LYRICS, A LITTLE BOOK OF.
- Austen (Jane). PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Edited by E. V. Lucas. Two Volumes.
- NORTHANGER ABBEY. Edited by E. V. Lucas.
- Bacon (Francis). THE ESSAYS OF LORD BACON. Edited by Edward Wright.
- Barham. (R. H.). THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. Edited by J. B. Atlay. Two Volumes.
- Barnett (Mrs. P. A.). A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE.
- Beckford (William). THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEK. Edited by E. Denison Ross.
- Blake (William). SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM BLAKE. Edited by M. Perugini.
- Borrow (George). LAVENGRO. Edited by F. Hindes Groome. Two Volumes.
- THE ROMANY RYE. Edited by John Sampson.
- Browning (Robert). SELECTIONS FROM THE EARLY POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Edited by W. Hall Griffin, M.A.
- Canning (George). SELECTIONS FROM THE ANTI-JACOBIN: with George Canning’s additional Poems. Edited by Lloyd Sanders.
- Cowley (Abraham). THE ESSAYS OF ABRAHAM COWLEY. Edited by H. C. Minchin.
- Crabbe (George). SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE CRABBE. Edited by A. C. Deane.
- Craik (Mrs.). JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. Edited by Anne Matheson. Two Volumes.
- Crashaw (Richard). THE ENGLISH POEMS OF RICHARD CRASHAW. Edited by Edward Hutton.
- Dante (Alighieri). THE INFERNO OF DANTE. Translated by H. F. Cary. Edited by Paget Toynbee, M.A., D.Litt.
- THE PURGATORIO OF DANTE. Translated by H. F. Cary. Edited by Paget Toynbee, M.A., D.Litt.
- THE PARADISO OF DANTE. Translated by H. F. Cary. Edited by Paget Toynbee, M.A., D.Litt.
- Darley (George). SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF GEORGE DARLEY. Edited by R. A. Streatfeild.
- Deane (A. C.). A LITTLE BOOK OF LIGHT VERSE.
- Dickens (Charles). CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Two Volumes.
- Ferrier (Susan). MARRIAGE. Edited by A. Goodrich-Freer and Lord Iddesleigh. Two Volumes.
- THE INHERITANCE. Two Volumes.
- Gaskell (Mrs.). CRANFORD. Edited by E. V. Lucas.
- Hawthorne (Nathaniel). THE SCARLET LETTER. Edited by Percy Dearmer.
- Henderson (T. F.). A LITTLE BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE.
- Keats (John). POEMS. With an Introduction by L. Binyon, and Notes by J. Masefield.
- Kinglake (A. W.). EOTHEN. With an Introduction and Notes.
- Lamb (Charles). ELIA, AND THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA. Edited by E. V. Lucas.
- Locker (F.). LONDON LYRICS. Edited by A. D. Godley, M.A. A reprint of the First Edition.
- Longfellow (H. W.). SELECTIONS FROM LONGFELLOW. Edited by L. M. Faithfull.
- Marvell (Andrew). THE POEMS OF ANDREW MARVELL. Edited by E. Wright.
- Milton (John). THE MINOR POEMS OF JOHN MILTON. Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A., Canon of Westminster.
- Moir (D. M). MANSIE WAUCH. Edited by F. Henderson.
- Nichols (J. B. B.). A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH SONNETS.
- Rochefoucauld (La). THE MAXIMS OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Translated by Dean Stanhope. Edited by G. H. Powell.
- Smith (Horace and James). REJECTED ADDRESSES. Edited by A. D. Godley, M.A.
- Sterne (Laurence). A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. Edited by H. W. Paul.
- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). THE EARLY POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. Edited by J. Churton Collins, M.A.
- IN MEMORIAM. Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A.
- THE PRINCESS. Edited by Elizabeth Wordsworth.
- MAUD. Edited by Elizabeth Wordsworth.
- Thackeray (W. M.). VANITY FAIR. Edited by S. Gwynn. Three Volumes.
- PENDENNIS. Edited by S. Gwynn. Three Volumes.
- ESMOND. Edited by S. Gwynn.
- CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Edited by S. Gwynn.
- Vaughan (Henry). THE POEMS OF HENRY VAUGHAN. Edited by Edward Hutton.
- Walton (Izaak). THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. Edited by J. Buchan.
- Waterhouse (Mrs. Alfred). A LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH. Edited by. Seventh Edition.
- Wordsworth (W.). SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. Edited by Nowell C. Smith.
- Wordsworth (W.) and Coleridge (S. T.). LYRICAL BALLADS. Edited by George Sampson.
Miniature Library, Methuen’s
Reprints in miniature of a few interesting books which have qualities of humanity, devotion, or literary genius.
- Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth. By Edward FitzGerald. From the edition published by W. Pickering in 1851. Demy 32mo. Leather, 2s. net.
- Polonius: or Wise Saws and Modern Instances. By Edward FitzGerald. From the edition published by W. Pickering in 1852. Demy 32mo. Leather, 2s. net.
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. By Edward FitzGerald. From the 1st edition of 1859, Third Edition. Leather, 1s. net.
- The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Written by himself. From the edition printed at Strawberry Hill in the year 1764. Medium 32mo. Leather, 2s. net.
- The Visions of Dom Francisco Quevedo Villegas, Knight of the Order of St. James. Made English by R. L. From the edition printed for H. Herringman, 1668. Leather, 2s. net.
- Poems. By Dora Greenwell. From the edition of 1848. Leather, 2s. net.
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