39 prose writers in 60 volumes, costing £5 1 0 18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0 __ __ __________ 57 78 £6 8 0 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, Red-gauntlet, 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