WILLIAM COLLINS

EDITED BY

CHRISTOPHER STONE

LONDON

HENRY FROWDE

9-13-282W-B

Soth.

8-30-28
17564

MEMOIR

CONTENTS

NOTE ON THE TEXT

LIST OF CHIEF EDITIONS OF WORKS OF COLLINS

SONNET

SONG

PERSIAN ECLOGUES

VERSES HUMBLY ADDRESS'D TO SIR THOMAS HANMER

ON HIS EDITION OF SHAKESPEAR'S WORKS

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WILLIAM COLLINS, aet. 14

*CHICHESTER CROSS, 1792, by W. Thomas

*CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL FROM THE NORTH-WEST, by Robert Walton

*THE SOUTH-WEST VIEW OF CHICHESTER,

by J. Ryland.

Frontispiece

to face p. v.

to face p. vi.

to face p. xvii.

*Reproduced from the originals in the Hope Collection, Oxford.