Literary Taste: How to Form It: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English LiteratureBennett, Arnold
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Literary Taste: How to Form It: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature
Bennett, Arnold
Best books -- Great Britain; Book collecting -- Great Britain; Books and reading -- Great Britain; English literature -- Bibliography
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Bede, *Ecclesiastical History:* Temple Classics 0 1 6
Sir Thomas Malory, *Morte d'Arthur:* Everyman's Library (4 vols.) 0 4 0
Sir Thomas More, *Utopia:* Scott Library 0 1 0
George Cavendish, *Life of Cardinal Wolsey:* New Universal Library 0 1
0
Richard Hakluyt, *Voyages:* Everyman's Library (8 vols.) 0 8 0
Richard Hooker, *Ecclesiastical Polity:* Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2
0
FRANCIS BACON, *Works:* Newnes's Thin-paper Classics 0 2 0
Thomas Dekker, *Gull's Horn-Book:* King's Classics 0 1 6
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, *Autobiography:* Scott Library 0 1 0
John Selden, *Table-Talk:* New Universal Library 0 1 0
Thomas Hobbes, *Leviathan:* New Universal Library 0 1 0
James Howell, *Familiar Letters:* Temple Classics (3 vols.) 0 4 6
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, *Religio Medici*, etc.: Everyman's Library 0 1
0
Jeremy Taylor, *Holy Living and Holy Dying:* Temple Classics (3 vols.) 0 4
6
Izaak Walton, *Compleat Angler:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
JOHN BUNYAN, *Pilgrim's Progress:* World's Classics 0 1 0
Sir William Temple, *Essay on Gardens of Epicurus:* King's Classics 0 1
6
John Evelyn, *Diary:* Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Samuel Pepys, *Diary:* Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
£2 1 6
The principal omission from the above list is *The Paston Letters*,
which I should probably have included had the enterprise
of publishers been sufficient to put an edition on the market
at a cheap price. Other omissions include the works of Caxton and Wyclif,
and such books as Camden's *Britannia*, Ascham's *Schoolmaster*,
and Fuller's *Worthies*, whose lack of first-rate value as literature
is not adequately compensated by their historical interest.
As to the Bible, in the first place it is a translation,
and in the second I assume that you already possess a copy.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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