Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances
Reading edition
Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Preface to Parthenissa (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, “Apologie for Romances,” prefixed to Aretina, the Serious Romance (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, Preface to Bentivolio and Urania (1660) Robert Boyle, Preface to Theodora and Didymus (1687)
With an Introduction by Charles Davies
Publication Number 42
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1953
GENERAL EDITORS
H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library Richard G. Boys, University of Michigan Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR
W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORS
Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington Benjamin Boyce, Duke University Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan John Butt, King’s College, University of Durham James L. Clifford, Columbia University Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles Louis A. Landa, Princeton University Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota Ernest Mossner, University of Texas James Sutherland, University College, London H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library