The Whole Works of Roger Ascham
THE WHOLE WORKS OF EOGER ASCHAM, NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND REVISED, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR; BY THE REV. DR. GILES, FORMERLY FELLOW OF C. C. C. , OXFORD. VOL. III. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, SOHO SQUARE. 3864. PRINTED BY BOWDEN AND BRAWN, 13, PRINCES STREET, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, HOLBORN, LONDON. PKEFACE TO VOL. III. OF the first work contained in this volume, "A Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany, <kc" I have seen but one edition afac-simile separate ; of its title is prefixed to our reprint of the work. It is in small quarto, and has no date; but it is known to have been printed in 1552, and again in 1570. The copy which I have seen, is in the British Museum, and has furnished, besides many smaller cor rections, more than one whole sentence that had been omitted in the last edition of the English Works, 8vo, 1815. 2. The School-master also is here printed from the " English Works of Roger Ascham," collated through out with the earlier editions, which have furnished several important corrections of the text. This work was first published by Mrs Ascham, small 8vo, 1570, after her husband's death : a fac-simile of IV PREFACE. the title to that edition is prefixed to the work in the present reprint. The School-master was again printed in 1571, 1573, 1579, 1583, 1589, these editions vary very little the one from the other. It was again published, with notes by the Rev. James Upton, London, 8vo, 1711, and reprinted 1743.
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