The Book of Romance

An Alphabetical Catalogue of New Works in General and Miscellaneous Literature, Published by Messrs. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row, London

Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances 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 (166