Contenido : Title, prologue and epilogues to the recuyell of the histories of troy / William Caxton. -- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion / John Calvin. -- Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heaventy Bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus. -- Preface to the history of the reformation in Scotland / John Knox. -- Prefatory letter to sir Walter Raleich on the Faerie Aveene / Edmund Spenser. -- Preface to the history of the world / Sir Walter Raleich. -- Prooemium, epistle dedi catory, preface, and plan of the Instauratio Magna, etc. / Francis Bacon