Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

This fatiguing labor would have been greatly reduced if I had proceeded in regards to the information on the editions in the same manner as those who traveled this path before me have done. But since I knew full well how little useful or reliable these brief notices of editions are, I made it my rule from the beginning to provide the complete titles of the editions that I would cite according to my stated purpose. Finding these out cost an arduous