h Poet will be independent of the rest; chronological sequence will not
be observed in the issue of the works, but will be adjusted by general
title-pages on the completion of the Series.

The Series will commence with the Works of DRYDEN, the First Volume of
which will appear on the 1st of January, 1854; to be followed on the 1st of
February by a Poet of an earlier period.

The INTRODUCTORY VOLUME, containing a SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
POETRY, will be published in the course of the year.

London: JOHN W. PARKER & SON, West Strand.

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PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS,

SOLD BY

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH.

36. SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

These Works are printed in quarto, uniform with the Club-Books, and the
series is now completed. Their value chiefly consists in the rarity and
curiosity of the pieces selected, the notes being very few in number. The
impression of each work is most strictly limited.

I.

MORTE ARTHURE: The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur; now
first printed, from a Manuscript in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral.
Seventy-five Copies printed. 5l.

*** A very curious Romance, full of allusions interesting to the
Antiquary and Philologist. It contains nearly eight thousand lines.

II.

THE CASTLE OF LOVE: A Poem, by ROBERT GROSTESTE, Bishop of Lincoln; now
first printed from inedited MSS. of the Fourteenth Century. One Hundred
Copies printed. 15s.

*** This is a religious poetical Romance, unknown to Warton. Its
poetical merits are beyond its age.

III.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE, derived chiefly from Rare Books
and Ancient Inedited Manuscripts from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth
Century. Seventy-five Copies printed.

*** Out of print separately, but included in the few remaining complete
sets.

IV.

A NEW BOKE ABOUT SHAKESPEARE AND STRATFORD-ON-AVON, illustrated with
numerous woodcuts and facsimiles of Shakespeare's Marriage Bond, and other
curious Articles. Seventy-five Copies printed. 1l. 1s.

V.

THE PALATINE ANTHOLOGY. An extensive Collection of Ancient Poems and
Ballads relating to Cheshire and Lancashire; to which is added THE PALATINE
GARLAND. One Hundred and Ten Copies printed. 2l. 2s.

VI.

THE LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES, Illustrated by
Reprints of very Rare Tracts. Seventy-five Copies printed. 2l. 2s.

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