THE WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE COMPLETE OF HENRY VAUGHAN, SILURIST. FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND EDITED : WITH Memorial-Introduction: Essay on Life and eritings: AND NOTES: ALSO FIFTEEN ORIGINAL PHOTO-CHROMO-LITHS AND FAC-SIMILES: CHIEFLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRIFFITHS OF BRECON. BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION AND SACRED POETRY: CONTAINING SILEX SCINTILLANS, 1650-1655: PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 30 COPIES ONLY. ΤΟ Sir John Duke Coleridge M. P. HER MAJESTY'S SOLICITOR GENERAL &c. &c. &c. SIR JOHN, In the outset you were kind enough spontaneously to express your interest in my work on the Worthies that form the (now) goodly Series of my privately-printed books: and successively I owe you many suggestive and pleasantlyworded letters, that came as so much sunlight into my study. By a gratifying coincidence too, while I was busied in preparations for it, you honoured me with your counsel to include HENRY VAUGHAN'S 'secular' as well as 'sacred' Poetry in the Fuller Worthies' Library. I was overjoyed to find my own decision confirmed by one whose judgment and taste few will challenge. I have now the pleasure to offer you Vols. Ist and IIIrd.-first of Prose and Verse respectively,and in the Autumn I hope to add Vols. IId. and IVth.-Verse and Prose-so making a complete collective edition of the Works of the Silurist: and your approbation of what I have tried to do 1 |