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.
Where I do not specify the edition of a book the original copyright edition is meant.
PROSE WRITERS: IMAGINATIVE. s. d.
SIR WALTER SCOTT, _Waverley, Heart of Midlothian, Quentin Durward, Red-gauntlet, Ivanhoe_: Everyman"s Library (5 vols.) 0 5 0
SIR WALTER SCOTT, _Marmion_, etc.: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
Charles Lamb, _Works in Prose and Verse_: Clarendon Press (2 vols.) 0 4 0
Charles Lamb, _Letters_: Newnes"s Thin Paper Cla.s.sics 0 2 0
Walter Savage Landor, _Imaginary Conversations_: Scott Library 0 1 0
Walter Savage Landor, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
Leigh Hunt, _Essays and Sketches_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
Thomas Love Peac.o.c.k, _Princ.i.p.al Novels_: New Universal Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Mary Russell Mitford, _Our Village_: Scott Library 0 1 0
Michael Scott, _Tom Cringle"s Log_: Macmillan"s Ill.u.s.trated Novels 0 2 6
Frederick Marryat, _Mr. Midshipman Easy_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
John Galt, _Annals of the Parish_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Susan Ferrier, _Marriage_: Routledge"s edition 0 2 0
Douglas Jerrold, _Mrs. Caudle"s Curtain Lectures_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
Lord Lytton, _Last Days of Pompeii_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
William Carleton, _Stories_: Scott Library 0 1 0
Charles James Lever, _Harry Lorrequer_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Harrison Ainsworth, _The Tower of London_: New Universal Library 0 1 0
George Henry Borrow, _Bible in Spain, Lavengro_: New Universal Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Lord Beaconsfield, _Sybil, Coningsby_: Lane"s New Pocket Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
W.M. THACKERAY, _Vanity Fair, Esmond_: Everyman"s Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
W.M. THACKERAY, _Barry Lyndon_, and _Roundabout Papers_, etc.: Nelson"s New Century Library 0 2 0
CHARLES d.i.c.kENS, _Works_: Everyman"s Library (18 vols.) 0 18 0
Charles Reade, _The Cloister and the Hearth_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Anthony Trollope, _Barchester Towers, Framley Parsonage_: Lane"s New Pocket Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Charles Kingsley, _Westward Ho!_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Henry Kingsley, _Ravenshoe_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Charlotte Bronte, _Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Professor, and Poems_: World"s Cla.s.sics (4 vols.) 0 4 0
Emily Bronte, _Wuthering Heights_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
Elizabeth Gaskell, _Cranford_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
Elizabeth Gaskell, _Life of Charlotte Bronte_ 0 2 6
George Eliot, _Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss_: Everyman"s Library (3 vols.) 0 3 0
G.J. Whyte-Melville, _The Gladiators_: New Universal Library 0 1 0
Alexander Smith, _Dreamthorpe_: New Universal Library 0 1 0
George Macdonald, _Malcolm_ 0 1 6
Walter Pater, _Imaginary Portraits_ 0 6 0
Wilkie Collins, _The Woman in White_ 0 1 0
R.D. Blackmore, _Lorna Doone_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Samuel Butler, _Erewhon_: Fifield"s Edition 0 2 6
Laurence Oliphant, _Altiora Peto_ 0 3 6
Margaret Oliphant, _Salem Chapel_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Richard Jefferies, _Story of My Heart_ 0 2 0
Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_: Macmillan"s Cheap Edition 0 1 0
John Henry Shorthouse, _John Inglesant_: Macmillan"s Pocket Cla.s.sics 0 2 0
R.L. Stevenson, _Master of Ballantrae, Virginibus Puerisque_: Pocket Edition (2 vols.) 0 4 0
George Gissing, _The Odd Women_: Popular Edition (bound) 0 0 7 __________ 5 0 1