The relations of author with printer or publisher, the success or failure of the books, matters of illustration, and marked peculiarities of editions, issues or volumes--all these things are referred to at greater or less length. In some cases, the facts have been given with fullness; but in others, like that of the Shakespeare _First Folio_, about which so much has been written, it was thought unnecessary to enter into details. Many of the books in the list having been already the subjects of whole bibliographies, or, having been carefully collated in other works, full collations have not been thought desirable here. It should be noted, in this connection, that the collations of books printed before the eighteenth century are given by signatures, while of books published after 1700, the paginations are given. Works of more than two volumes have not been collated in detail. CONTENTS TITLE AUTHOR DATE PAGE The Canterbury Tales Chaucer 1478 3 Confeſſio Amantis Gower 1483 5 Le Morte Darthur Malory 1485 7 The Booke of the Common Praier 1549 9 The Vision of Pierce Plowman Langland 1550 12 Chronicles of England Scotlande, and Irelande Holinshed 1577 15 {Baldwin, } A Myrrour For Magiſtrates {Sackville,} {and others} 1563 19 Songes And Sonettes Howard 1567 22 The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex {Norton and} {Sackville } [1570?] 24 Euphues Lyly 1581 26 The Countesse Of Pembrokes Arcadia Sidney 1590 29 The Faerie Queene Spenser 1590 32 Eſſaies Bacon 1598 34 The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques And Discoueries of the Engliſh Nation Hakluyt 1598 36 The Whole Works Of Homer Chapman [n. d.] 40 The Holy Bible 44 The Workes Jonson 1616 48 The Anatomy Of Melancholy Burton 1621 51 Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Shakespeare 1623 53 The Tragedy of The Dutchesse of Malfy Webster 1623 56 A New Way To Pay Old Debts Massinger 1633 57 The Broken Heart Ford 1633 58 The Famous Tragedy of The Rich Ievv Of Malta Marlowe 1633 59 The Temple Herbert 1633 60 Poems Donne 1633 62