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Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy / William Caxton -- Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophies / William Caxton -- Prologue to Golden Legend / William Caxton -- Prologue to Caton / William Caxton -- Epilogue to Aesop / William Caxton -- Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / William Caxton -- Prologue to Malory's King Arthur / William Caxton -- Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos / William Caxton -- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion / John Calvin (translated by John Allen) -- Dedication to the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus -- Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland / John Knox -- Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- Preface to the History of the World / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Proemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, Etc. / Francis Bacon (translation edited by J. Spedding) -- Preface of the Novum Organum / Francis Bacon -- Preface of the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays / Heminge and Condell -- Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton (translated by Andrew Motte) -- Preface fo Fables, Ancient and Modern / John Dryden -- Preface to Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding -- Preface to the English Dictionary / Samuel Johnson -- Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Introduction to the Propylaen / Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe -- Prefaces to Various Volumes or Poems / William Wordsworth -- Appendix to Lyrical Ballads / William Wordsworth -- Essay Supplementary to Preface / William Wordsworth -- Preface to Cromwell / Victor Hugo -- Preface to Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- Introduction to the History of English Literature / H. A. Taine.
