Prefaces and prologues to famous books : with introductions and notes

Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy ; Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers ; Prologue to Golden legend ; Prologue to Caton ; Epilogue to Aesop ; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales ; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur ; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos / William Caxton

Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin ; translated by John Allen

Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus

Preface to the History of the reformation in Scotland / John Knox

Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene / Edmund Spenser

Preface to the History of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh

Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc. / Francis Bacon ; translation edited by J. Spedding

Preface to the Novum organum / Francis Bacon

Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays / Heminge and Condell

Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton ; translated by Andrew Motte. Preface of fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden

Preface to Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding

Preface to the English dictionary ; Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson

Introduction to the Propylaen / J.W. von Goethe

Prefaces to various volumes of poems ; Appendix to lyrical ballads ; Essays supplementary to preface / William Wordsworth

Preface to Cromwell / Victor Hugo

Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman

Introduction to the history of English literature / H.A. Taine