Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

Depending on your font, the Tironian shorthand ‘et’, used in Anglo-Saxon passages and which resembles ‘7’, may not display properly.

Footnotes, which were numbered consecutively on each page, have been re-sequenced to be unique within the text. They have been repositioned to follow the chapter where they are referenced.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup.

The cover image was prepared from the title page and is placed in the public domain.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.