INTRODUCTION

THE PREFACE.

The Augustan Reprint Society

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 (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