Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics Part 17

Being the injunctions of Bishop Poore intended for the guidance of nuns or anch.o.r.esses, as set forth in the famous thirteenth-century MS. referred to above.

Editor, the Right Rev. Abbot GASQUET. Frontispiece, Seal of Bishop Poore.

_Double volume._

17. MEDIAEVAL, LORE.

From Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Edited with notes, index and glossary by ROBERT STEELE. Preface by the late WILLIAM MORRIS. Frontispiece, an old illumination, representing Astrologers using Astrolabes.

[The book is drawn from one of the most widely-read works of mediaeval times. Its popularity is explained by its scope, which comprises explanations of allusions to natural objects met with in Scripture and elsewhere. It was, in fact, an account of the properties of things in general.]

11. THE ROMANCE OF FULK FITZWARINE.

Newly translated from the Anglo-French by ALICE KEMP-WELCH, with an introduction by Professor BRANDIN. Frontispiece, Whittington Castle in Shrops.h.i.+re, the seat of the Fitzwarines.

45. THE SONG OF ROLAND.

Newly translated from the old French by Mrs. CROSLAND. Introduction by Professor BRANDIN, University of London. Frontispiece.

22. EARLY LIVES OF CHARLEMAGNE.

Translated and edited by A.J. GRANT. With frontispiece representing an early bronze figure of Charlemagne from the Musee Carnavalet, Paris.

We have here given us two "Lives" of Charlemagne by contemporary authorities--one by Eginhard and the other by the Monk of St. Gall. Very different in style, when brought together in one volume each supplies the deficiencies of the other.

35. WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG.

Mediaeval students' songs, translated from the Latin, with an essay, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. Frontispiece after a fifteenth-century woodcut.

18. THE VISION OF PIERS THE PLOWMAN.

By WILLIAM LANGLAND; _in modern English by_ Professor SKEAT, Litt.D.

Frontispiece, "G.o.d Speed the Plough," from an old MS.

8. CHAUCER'S KNIGHT'S TALE, or Palamon and Arcite.

_In modern English by_ Professor SKEAT, Litt.D. Frontispiece, "The Canterbury Pilgrims," from an illuminated MS.

9. CHAUCER'S MAN OF LAW'S TALE, Squire's Tale, and Nun's Priest's Tale.

_In modern English by_ Professor SKEAT, Litt.D. Frontispiece from an illuminated MS.

10. CHAUCER'S PRIORESS'S TALE, Pardoner's Tale, Clerk's Tale, and Canon's Yeoman's Tale.

_In modern English by_ Professor SKEAT, Litt.D. Frontispiece, "The Patient Griselda," from the well-known fifteenth-century picture of the Umbrian School in the National Gallery.

41. CHAUCER'S LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN.

_In modern English_, with notes and introduction, by Professor W.W.

SKEAT, Litt.D. Frontispiece, "Ariadne Deserted," after the painting by ANGELICA KAUFMANN.

36, 37. GEORGE PETTIE'S "PEt.i.tE PALACE OF PETTIE HIS PLEASURE."

The popular Elizabethan book containing twelve cla.s.sical love-stories-- "Sinorex and Camma," "Tereus and Progne," etc.--in style the precursor of Euphues, now first reprinted under the editors.h.i.+p of Professor I. GOLLANCZ.

Frontispieces, a reproduction of the original t.i.tle, and of an original page.

_In two volumes_.

21. THE MEMOIRS OF ROBERT CARY, Earl of Monmouth.

Being a contemporary record of the life of that n.o.bleman as Warden of the Marches and at the Court of Elizabeth.

Editor, G.H. POWELL. With frontispiece from the original edition, representing Queen Elizabeth in a state procession, with the Earl of Monmouth and others in attendance.

19. THE GULL'S HORNBOOK.

By THOMAS DEKKER. Editor, R.B. MCKERROW. Frontispiece, The nave of St.

Paul's Cathedral at the time of Elizabeth.

29. SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.

Editor, C.C. STOPES. Frontispiece, Portrait of the Earl of Southampton.

4. THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE, Knight.

By his son-in-law, WILLIAM ROPER. With letters to and from his famous daughter, Margaret Roper. Frontispiece, Portrait of Sir Thomas More, after Holbein.

33. THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOMAS MORE. By ANNE MANNING. Preface by RICHARD GARNETT. Frontispiece, "The Family of Sir Thomas More."

40. SIR THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA.

Now for the first time edited from _the first edition by_ ROBERT STEELE. Frontispiece, Portrait of Sir Thomas More, after an early engraving.

44. THE FOUR LAST THINGS, together with the Life of Pico della Mirandola and the English Poems.

By Sir THOMAS MORE. Edited by DANIEL O'CONNOR. Frontispiece after two designs from the "Daunce of Death."

43. SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE'S ESSAY ON GARDENS, together with other Carolean Essays on Gardens.

Edited, and with notes and introduction, by A. FORBES SIEVEKING, F.S.A.

Frontispiece, Portrait of Sir William Temple, and five reproductions of early "garden" engravings.

5. EIKON BASILIKE: or, The King's Book.

Edited by EDWARD ALMACK, F.S.A. Frontispiece, Portrait of King Charles I.

This edition, which has been printed from an advance copy of the King's Book seized by Cromwell's soldiers, is the first inexpensive one for a hundred years in which the original spelling of the first edition has been preserved.

6, 7. KINGS' LETTERS.