Chapter I: Front Matter

The Committee on Publications of the Grolier Club
certifies that this copy of "One Hundred Books
Famous in English Literature" is one of three
hundred and five copies printed on hand-made
paper, and that all were printed during the year
nineteen hundred and two.

ONE HUNDRED BOOKS
FAMOUS IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE

ONE HUNDRED BOOKS
FAMOUS IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE

WITH FACSIMILES OF
THE TITLE-PAGES

AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY

THE GROLIER CLUB
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
M CM II

Copyright, 1902, by
THE GROLIER CLUB OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK

FACSIMILE TITLES

TITLE AUTHOR DATE PAGE

First Page of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer 1478 3

First Page of the Confessio Amantis Gower 1483 5

First Page of the Morte Arthure Malory 1485 7

The Booke of Common Praier 1549 9

The Vision of Pierce Plowman Langland 1550 11

Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and
Ireland Holinshed 1577 13

A Myrrour for Magistrates 1563 15

Songes and Sonettes Surrey 1567 17

The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex Sackville 1570 19

Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit Lylie 1579 21

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia Sidney 1590 23

The Faerie Queene Spenser 1590 25

Essaies Bacon 1598 27

The Principal Navigations, Voiages,
Traffiques and Discoveries of the
English Nation Hakluyt 1598 29

The Whole Works of Homer Chapman 1611 31

The Holy Bible King James's 1611 33
Version

The Workes of Benjamin Jonson Jonson 1616 35

The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton 1621 37

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,
Histories, & Tragedies Shakespeare 1623 39

The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy Webster 1623 41

A New Way to Pay Old Debts Massinger 1633 43

The Broken Heart Ford 1633 45

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of
Malta Marlowe 1633 47

The Temple Herbert 1633 49

Poems Donne 1633 51

Religio Medici Browne 1642 53

The Workes of Edmond Waller Esquire 1645 55

Comedies and Tragedies Beaumont 1647 57
and Fletcher

Hesperides Herrick 1648 59

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living Taylor 1650 61

The Compleat Angler Walton 1653 63

Hudibras Butler 1663 65

Paradise Lost Milton 1667 67

The Pilgrims Progress Bunyan 1678 69

Absalom and Achitophel Dryden 1681 71

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Locke 1690 73

The Way of the World Congreve 1700 75

The History of the Rebellion and Civil
Wars in England Clarendon 1702 77

The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Steele 1710 79
Esq.

The Spectator Addison 1711 81

The Life and Strange Surprizing
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Defoe 1719 83

Travels into Several Remote Nations of
the World Swift 1726 85

An Essay on Man Pope 1733 87

The Analogy of Religion Butler 1736 89

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Percy 1765 91

Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric
Subjects Collins 1747 93

Clarissa Richardson 1748 95

The History of Tom Jones Fielding 1749 97

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard Gray 1751 99

A Dictionary of the English Language Johnson 1755 101

Poor Richard's Almanack Franklin 1758 103

Commentaries on the Laws of England Blackstone 1765 105

The Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith 1766 107

A Sentimental Journey Sterne 1768 109

The Federalist 1788 111

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Smollett 16[7]71 113

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
the Wealth of Nations Smith 1776 115

The History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire Gibbon 1776 117

The School for Scandal Sheridan 1777 119

The Task Cowper 1785 121

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Burns 1786 123

The Natural History and Antiquities of
Selborne White 1789 125

Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke 1790 127

Rights of Man Paine 1791 129

The Life of Samuel Johnson Boswell 1791 131

Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth 1798 133

A History of New York, from the Beginning
of the World to the End of the
Dutch Dynasty Irving 1809 135

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Byron 1812 137

Pride and Prejudice Austen 1813 139

Christabel Coleridge 1816 141

Ivanhoe Scott 1820 143

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes,
and Other Poems Keats 1820 145

Adonais Shelley 1821 147

Elia Lamb 1823 149

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Pepys 1825 151

The Last of the Mohicans Cooper 1826 153

Pericles and Aspasia Landor 1836 155

The Pickwick Papers Dickens 1837 157

Sartor Resartus Carlyle 1834 159

Nature Emerson 1836 161

History of the Conquest of Peru Prescott 1847 163

The Raven and Other Poems Poe 1845 165

Jane Eyre Brontë 1847 167

Evangeline Longfellow 1847 169

Sonnets Mrs. Browning 1847 171

The Biglow Papers Lowell 1848 173

Vanity Fair Thackeray 1848 175

The History of England Macaulay 1849 177

In Memoriam Tennyson 1850 179

The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 1850 181

Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Stowe 1852 183

The Stones of Venice Ruskin 1851 185

Men and Women Browning 1855 187

The Rise of the Dutch Republic Motley 1856 189

Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 191

On the Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection Darwin 1859 193

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Fitzgerald 1859 195

Apologia pro Vita Sua Newman 1864 197

Essays in Criticism Arnold 1865 199

Snow-Bound Whittier 1866 201

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Except where noted, all facsimiles of title-pages
are of the size of those in the original editions.