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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama, Edited, With an Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryThe small attention devoted to the pre-elizabethan drama in all histories of English Literature is the best excuse for the appearance of the present volume of Specimens. Of the works from which these Specimens have been drawn, the greater part are accessible to students only in the Publications...

Excerpt from Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th CenturiesIn a handbook like the present this is a necessary evil, but the evil is equally conspicuous in a great number of modern books in which the illustrations are introduced solely for their decorative value. In this matter we have much to learn from the old printers, in whose books paper, type, illustrations, initial letters, a...

Excerpt from Modern Fine Printing in England and Mr. Bruce Rogers: With a List of Books Other Pieces of Printing, Designed by Mr. RogersTestament in the Complutensian Polyglott sur pass their originals no less decisively. I once per suaded Mr. Cyril Davenport, when he was the Superintendent of Bookbindings at the British Museum, to arrange in the King's library, side by side in two compartments of a show case, the best examples which the Museu...

Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2: Edited With Notes and IntroductionThe Canterbury TalesGroup DThe Prologue of the Wyves Tale of Bathe"Experience, though noon auctoriteeWere in this world, were right ynogh to meTo speke of wo that is in mariage, For, lordynges, sith I twelf yeer was of age, -Y-thonked be God, that is eterne on lyve!Housbondes at chirche dore I have had fyve, For I so ofte have y-wedded bee, And alle were worthy ...

Excerpt from Last Words on the History of the Title-Page: With Notes on Some Colophons and Twenty-Seven Fac-Similes of Title-PagesReview. A little time back I was honoured bya request to lend these scattered notes, but the request (which was accompanied by a promise to read) came from a lover of fine books, and when I looked at the loose leaves in my portfolio I was ashamed to send them. Moreover, no one can work in a great library, like that ...

Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1Before, however, I can embark on the pleasant little task which I propose for myself, I must say a few words as to the origin of the present edition of the Canterbury Tales and the features which it embraces.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Fo...

Excerpt from St. Catherine of SienaIT is hoped that this sketch of St Catherine of Siena may persuade any readers it may obtain to turn for fuller knowledge of her to Professor Edmund Gardner's Saint Catherine of Sz'ena a Study in the Religion, Literature ana' History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (j. M. Dent Co., to which it is deeply indebted, to Matilde Fiorilli's edition of the Lihro a'elt'a Divina Dottrina (bari, Gius. Laterza Figli,...

Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1Before, however, I can embark on the pleasant little task which I propose for myself, I must say a few words as to the origin of the present edition of the Canterbury Tales and the features which it embraces.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Fo...

Excerpt from Fine BooksEntitled to the modest praise of being superior to the rest of its author's book-makings, since it has been ten years on the stocks and much of it has been written two or three times over, either because the writer's own information had increased or to take account of the successful researches of others. Yet in the end defeat in one main point has to be acknowledged. The book was begun with a confident determination to c...

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His TextYale University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, My own powers of unimpeded utterance being restriéted to five minutes at a time, these lectures were very kindly read for me by Mr. Stephen Gaselee, of Magdalene College, and I have to record my gratitude, not only to Mr. Gaselee (to whom I am deeply in debt on many other co...

Excerpt from Italian Book Illustrations: Chiefly of the Fifteenth CenturyThe distinction thus suggested is a very neat one, but it rests on rather a slight foundation of fact. What amount of instruction may have been gathered from the woodcuts in German books is a question which does not greatly concern us. It was certainly not very large, for the German printers were not superior to the common tricks of the time, drawing freely on their imagi...

Excerpt from ChaucerDecade since-his death. But since Tyrwhitt began his labours, nowjust a century ago, one great section of Chaucer's work, the Ca¿/erbufy Tales, has been accessible in a fairly correct form, and thanks to the labours of the Chaucer sociecty - alike to its unweary ing director and the students, English, American, and German, who have come to his help - thc materials for a sound text of the whole of the poet's rl-zs, and much ...

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About the Book Books about Ancient, Classical and Medieval Poetry begin with the ancient epic poetry of Babylon and Greece. Poetry did not flourish in the Middle Ages, but experienced re-birth during the Renaissance. Titles include: Aristotle on the Art of Poetry, A Study of the Anglo-Saxon Poem, The Harrowing of Hell, Dissertation, Beowulf, an Old English Poem, Translated into Modern Rhymes, Das neue Leben, La Vita Nova, Homer. The Odyssey, S...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...