Britannia. (From Coins of Antoninus Pius) . .

Initial from a Fourteenth Century MS. of The

Gulathingslaug . . . . . . .

Geography of Beowulf . . . . . .

A Norse Warrior, A.D. 874. (From Thordur Thor.

laksson's Edition of " The Landnamabok") .' 3

A Modern Icelandic House . . . . . 4

The Hall of a Norse Chief . . . . . . . 5

Initial, with Portrait of Layamon. (From MS.

Cotton., “Caligula,” A ix.). . . . . 15

Initial from John Stowe's Folio of Chaucer, 1561 . 33

Chaucer as a Canterbury Pilgrim. (From the Elles-

mere MS. of “The Canterbury Tales”) . .

The Squire. (From the same). . . . .

The Prioress. (From the same). . . .

The Friar. (From the same) . .

The Clerk of Oxenford. (From the same). . : 39

The Man of Law. (From the same). . .

The Cook. (From the same) . . .

The Wife of Bath. (From the same) . .

The Miller. (From the same). ..

The Pardoper. (From the same) .

The Knight. (From John Stowe's Folio Edition of

Chaucer, 1561) . . . . . . .

Initial from the Harleian MS. of Gower's “ Confessio

Amantis” . . . . . . . . 50

Lydgate Contemplating the Wheel of Fortune. (From

Richard Pynson's Edition of “ The Falls of

Princes," 1513) . .

Initial from the MS. of Lydgate's “Life of St.

Edmund,” Harl., 2278 . . . . . 65

Lydgate Kneeling at the Shrine of St. Edmund. (From

Harl. MS., 2278) . . . . . .

King Henry VI. (From the same) . . . . 67

Royal Prosperity. (From the same) . . . .

Old Canterbury. (From W. Smith’s “ Description of

England,” Lansdowne MS.) . . . .

Initial from Occleve's MS. of his “ De Regimene

Principum ". . . . . . . . 74

"Give Peace in our Time, O Lord.” (Froin Harl.

MS., 2278) . . . . . . . . 831

Saint George. (From a Bas-relief on Henry VII.'s

Tomb in Westminster Abbey) . . . . 97

[Sir Guyon.] (From a Statue in the West Front of

Exeter Cathedral) . . . . . . .

An Ass. (From Baptista Porta's “De Humana

Physiognomia ") . . . . . . . 106

A Pig. (From the same). . . . . . 106

Spandrel. (St. Edmund's Chapel, Westminster) . 107

Tournament. (From MS. Decretals). . . . 116

Mercilla. (From the Title-page to the Induction to

“ The Mirror for Magistrates," 1610). . . 135

The Birthplace of Shakespeare, as it was in 1769.

(From a Print) . . . . . . 136

Initial from Camden's “ Britannia," 1590 . . . 136

Initial from the same . . . . . . 140

Title-page of Michael Drayton's “ Poems” . . 156

. Edward II. (From “The Mirror for Magistrates,"

Ed. 1610) . . . . . . . . 157

Map of Surrey and Sussex. (From Drayton's “ Poly-

olbion” . . . . . . . . 169

John Milton, aged 10 . . . . . . 178

John Milton, aged 43 . . . . . . 179

John Milton, in later life . . . . . . 189

Sorrow of Adam and Eve. (From the MS. of

Cædmon's " Paraphrase," Tenth Century) . . 195

Samuel Butler. (From a Portrait by G. Soest). . 200

Hudibras and Ralpho. (From the Illustrations to

“ Hudibras,” by William Hogarth, 1726) .

The Enemy. (From the same). . . . . 204

Hudibras and Trulla. (From the same) . . 212

In the Stocks. (From the same) . . . . 214

The Astrologer. (From the same) . . . . 221

Samuel Garth . . . . . . . . 228

Disease and the Doctors. (From the Illustrations by

L. du Guernier to the Original Edition of Garth's

“Dispensary") . . . . . . 230

Apple-grafting. (From an Illustration in Tonson's

Edition of Philips's “ Cyder") . . . . 232

Frontispiece to “The Rape of the Lock." (From the

Illustrations by L. du Guernier to the Edition of

1714) . .

. . . . . 233

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On the Thames. (From the Illustrations by L. du

Guernier to the Edition of 1714). . . . 235

The Rape of the Lock. (From the same) . . 236

The Battle. (From the same). . . . . 238

Owl and Ass. (From the Frontispiece to the First

· Edition of " The Dunciad") . . . . 245

Frontispiece to Grainger's “Sugar-cane.” (First

Edition, 1764) . . . . . . .

Ornam om the Edition of More's “ Utopia" by

Frobenius, 1518 . . . . . . . 261

Initial from More's “Epigrams," 1520 . . . 261

The Talk with Raphael Hythloday. (From the Edition

of More’s “ Utopia" by Frobenius) . . .

The Island of Utopia. (From the same). . .

The Utopian Alphabet. (From More's “ Utopia," Ed.

Louvain, 1516). . . . . . . 277

The Meter of iiij Verses in the Utopian Tongue.

(From the same). . . . . . . 277

Initial from the Edition of More by Frobenius. . 278

Sir Thomas Elyot. (From the Portrait by Holbein). 278

Initial from the Edition of More by Frobenius . . 282

Initial from Bacon's “Novum Organum,” First Edition 289

Frontispiece to Bacon's “Novum Organum,” First

Edition, 1620 . . . . . . . 290

Thomas Hobbes . . . . . . . . 295

Frontispiece to Hobbes's “ Leviathan," 1651 . ..

Publisher's Mark. (From the Title-page of the Second

Part of “Robinson Crusoe,”' 1719) . . . 303

Robinson Crusoe. (From the Frontispiece to the

First Edition, 1719) . . . . . . . 304

Ornament from “Further Adventures of Robinson

Crusoe,” 1719 . . . . . . . 307

Lemuel Gulliver, ætat. 58. (From the Frontispiece

to the First Edition of his “Travels,” 1726) 308

Map of Lilliput. (From the First Edition of “Gul.

liver's Travels," 1726). . . . . . 310

Map of Brobdingnag. (From the same). . . 313

The Flying Island. (From the same) . . . 317

The Book-making Machine. (From the same) . 318

With Richardson at Tunbridge Wells. (From a

Sketch made in 1748) . . . . . . 321

Virtue and Innocence Seated at the Tomb of Clarissa.

(From an Edition of “ Clariss 1" in 1795), 334

The Sentinel Mistaking Tom Jones for an Apparition

(From Rowlandson's Illustrations to “Tom

Jones," 1791) . . . . . . . 342

Tom Jones Refused Admittance by the Nobleman's

Porter. (From the same). . . . . 343

Partridge Interrupting Tom Jones's Protestations to

Lady Bellaston. (From the same) . . . 344

Mr. Burchell's Pocket-book. (From an Illustration

to “The Vicar of Wakefield,” 1780). . . 348

Olivia Restored. (From the Illustration by Stothard,

1792). . . . . . . . . 349

Sophia Rescued. (From an Illustration to “ The Vicar

of Wakefield," 1780), . . . . . 352

An Irish Dance. (From a Sketch by Charlotte

Edgeworth, 1803) . . . . . . 353

The Giant of the Western Star. (From an Illustration

to “The Pleasures of Hope," 1800) . . . 354

Thomas Campbell. (From the Portrait by Sir Thomas

Lawrence) . . . . . . . . 356

Melrose Abbey. (From a Picture in Scott's “Border

Antiquities,” 1814) . . . . . . 361

Blea Tarn, with Langdale Pikes in the Distance .. 375

Grasmere . . . . . . . . 379

Sir Walter Scott in 1830. .

380

Percy Bysshe Shelley . . . . . : 388

John Keats

. . . . . . . 394

Alfred Tennyson . . . . . . . 399

Robert Browning . . . . . . . 403

Griff House, the Birthplace of “George Eliot”. 405

Sixteenth Century Ornament. (From Allan Ramsay's

“ Tartana," 1721) . . . . . . 406

Initial to Indexes. (From Buckingham's Works,

1729). . . . . . . . . 419

Ornament from Sylvester’s “Du Bartas," 1630. . 420

Tailpiece from Pope's Works, 1717 . . . . 422

Initial to General Indexes (from Marino's “L’Adone,”

1623) . . . . . . . . 424
Land's End . . . . . .

448
Ornaments and Initials to Contents, &c. . . v, vii, viii

295