Gilpin"s _Forest Scenery_.
_Golden Legend_, in English.
Goldsmith"s _Vicar of Wakefield_.
Goldsmith"s _Citizen of the World_.
Grimm"s _Popular Stories_.
Hakluyt"s _Voyages_.
Harleian Miscellany.
Hearne"s _Diary_, 2nd edition.
Rawlinson"s _Herodotus_.
Herrick"s _Hesperides_.
Holland"s _Heroologia_, 1620.
Homer, by Chapman.
# But better in the original.
Hone"s Popular Works.
# An original copy.
Horace, _Satires and Epistles_, by Keightley.
_Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis._ # A printed edition for the engravings.
James Howell"s _Letters_.
Howells" _Italian Journeys_.
Howells" _Venetian Life_.
_Hundred Merry Tales_, 1526.
Hunter"s _New Ill.u.s.trations of Shakespeare_.
Hunter"s _Historical Tracts_.
Hunter"s _Account of New Plymouth_, 2nd edition.
Irving"s _Scotish Poetry_.
Johnson"s _Lives of the Poets_.
Johnson"s _Ra.s.selas_.
# For the sake of its story, not of the book.
_Junius, Letters of._ Keightley"s _Mythology of Greece and Italy_.
# Some of the matter antic.i.p.ated by Sir T. Browne in his _Vulgar Errors_.
Keightley"s Histories of Greece, Rome, and England (last editions).
Knox"s _Ornithological Rambles in Suss.e.x_.
Lamb"s _Elia_.
Lamb"s _Letters_.
Lamb"s _Adventures of Ulysses_.
Lamb"s _Rosamund Gray_.
Langland"s _Piers Ploughman_.
Latimer"s _Sermons_.
_Lazarillo de Tormes_, in English.
Le Houx, _Vaux de Vire_, in French.
Leland"s _Itinerary_ and _Collectanea_, 1770.
Le Sage"s _Gil Blas_, IN FRENCH.
Lord Lindsay"s _Lives of the Lindsays_.
# See that pa.s.sage where the opinion of James, Earl of Balcarres, is quoted in regard to the duty of men to leave behind them some trace or record of their mind. Edit. 1849.
Lockhart"s _Life of Scott_.
Lodge"s _Portraits_.
# An early edition.
Lovelace"s _Poems_.
Lucas, _Studies in Nidderdale_.
Lysons, _Magna Britannia_, 6 vols.
Lysons, _Environs of London_, 2nd edition.
Malory"s _Morte Arthur_.
Montaigne"s _Essays_, IN FRENCH.
Morris"s Works on Birds, Birds" Eggs, &c.
Nurnberg Chronicle, 1493.
# The Latin text. As a very early picture-book.
Olaus Magnus.
# Original Latin, with the woodcuts.
Ovid.
# Partly as in all appearance a favourite in some shape with our Shakespeare.
_Paston Letters._ Pennant"s _Tours in Wales and Scotland_, and _Journey to London_.
# On account of their personality. You know that much is obsolete, and other men have improved on them; but there is somehow the same charm.
Pepys"s _Diary_, by Wheatley.
Percy"s _Reliques_.
Phillips"s _English Dictionary_.
Photii _Bibliotheca_.
Plato"s _Dialogues_.
# Perhaps the French version by Cousin is preferable.
Plinii _Epistolae_.
Plutarch"s _Lives_.
_Popular (Early) Poetry of England_, 4 vols.
_Popular (Early) Poetry of Scotland and the Border_, 2 vols.
Poets. _Select British Poets_, 1824.
# Includes ample selections from writers hardly worth possessing in a separate shape, including many even great and distinguished names.
Poets. _Corpus Poetarum Latinorum et Graecorum._ # The same remark applies.
Rabelais.
Randolph"s _Plays and Poems_.
_Retrospective Review._ _Reynard the Fox_, in English.
Richardson"s _Clarissa_.
_Robin Hood Ballads._ Scot"s _Discovery of Witchcraft_.
Selden"s _Table-Talk_.
Shakespeare"s _Works_.
Shakespeare"s _Library_, 6 vols.
_Songs of the Dramatists._ Southey"s _Commonplace Book_.
Southey"s _Select Letters_.
# More especially for his delightful letters to children.
Spence"s _Anecdotes_.
Spenser"s _Works_.
Sterne"s _Tristram Shandy_.
St. John"s (J. A.) _Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece_, 1842.
# A lifelong labour, and most delightful and instructive work.
St. John"s (Bayle) _Montaigne the Essayist_.
St. John"s English version of Saint Simon.
Stow"s _Annals_.
Stow"s _Survey of London_, 1720.
Strutt"s _Costume_, by Planche.
Suckling"s Works.
Swift"s _Gulliver_.
Sydney"s _Arcadia_.
Tennyson"s _Lyrical Poems_.