"Presenting complete and authoritative texts (and, in some cases, carefully chosen selections) from scores of ballads, fables, stories, novels, plays, poems, science texts, and picture books from 1550-1900." Library has:.

v. 1-2. c.1550-c.1739, the early years / edited by Francelia Butler.--v. 3-4. c.1740-c.1836, middle period / edited by Robert Bator.