Literary Taste: How to Form It - With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett
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Sir Thomas Browne, _Religio Medici_, etc.:
Everyman's Library. 0 1 0 Jeremy Taylor, _Holy Living and Holy Dying_: Temple Classics (3 vols.) 0 4 6 Izaak Walton, _Compleat Angler_: Everyman's Library. 0 1 0 John Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_: World's Classics. 0 1 0 Sir William Temple, _Essay on Gardens of Epicurus_: King's Classics. 0 1 6 John Evelyn, _Diary_: Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0 Samuel Pepys, _Diary_: Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0 _________ £2 1 6 The principal omission from the above list is _The Paston Letters_, which I should probably have included had the enterprise of publishers been sufficient to put an edition on the market at a cheap price. Other omissions include the works of Caxton and Wyclif, and such books as Camden's _Britannia_, Ascham's _Schoolmaster_, and Fuller's _Worthies_, whose lack of first-rate value as literature is not |
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