SUMMARY OF THE PERIOD.

39 prose writers in 60 volumes, costing £5 1 0
18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0
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57 78 £6 8 0




CHAPTER XIII

AN ENGLISH LIBRARY: PERIOD III


The catalogue of necessary authors of this third and last period being
so long, it is convenient to divide the prose writers into Imaginative
and Non-imaginative.

In the latter half of the period the question of copyright affects our
scheme to a certain extent, because it affects prices. Fortunately
it is the fact that no single book of recognised first-rate general
importance is conspicuously dear. Nevertheless, I have encountered
difficulties in the second rank; I have dealt with them in a spirit
of compromise. I think I may say that, though I should have included
a few more authors had their books been obtainable at a reasonable
price, I have omitted none that I consider indispensable to a
thoroughly representative collection. No living author is included.