Illustrations in Vol. I. Nos. II. and IV, appear in usual large paper (8vo): the others exclusively in illustrated 4to. I. LOWER NEWTON, birth-place of HENRY VAUGHAN. Facing title-page. (from an original photograph by GRIFFITHS of Brecon) II. Fac-simile of handwriting and autograph (from the original in Editor's possession by FRANCIS): facing title-page in 8vo. III. Grave-stone of HENRY VAUGHAN Facing page xli. Facing page xlvi. (from original photograph by GRIFFITHS of Brecon) IV. Facsimile of first title-page of SILEX SCINTILLANS (1650) shewing the Emblem. (from original by FRANCIS in 4to: by Maclure, Macdonald & Co. in 8vo.) Facing page 7. રોહ Preface. T is my privilege once more, as in FULLER, WASHBOURNE, the three FLETCHERS, SIR JOHN DAVIES, SIR JOHN BEAUMONT, LORD BROOKE, &c. &c., to be the FIRST to collect and edit the Works in Verse and Prose, sacred and secular, of HENRY VAUGHAN, Silurist. For hitherto the pretty little volume of Selections from his Sacred Poetry, lovingly but most uncritically edited by the Rev. H. F. Lyte (1847) has been the only representative of his genius that can be said to be known. It would be difficult to over-estimate Silex Scintillans', as it were to be ingrate, not to recognise the service rendered by Mr. Lyte: but Vaughan's Secular Poems and translations and occasional pieces, especially those of "Olor Iscanus" and "Thalia Rediviva" have all the deeper and thought-rich characteristics of his Sacred, and veinings and See explanation of this cognomen in MemorialIntroduction, pages xx., xxxiii. |