William Blackstone, when writing his Commentaries on the Laws of England, noted in his preface that " of all the earlier schemes for digesting the Laws of England the most natural and scientific, as well as the most comprehensive, appeared to be that of Sir Matthew Hale in his posthumous Analysis of the Law ".

A posthumous third edition with a preface by Théophile Gautier and including 14 previously unpublished poems was issued in 1868.

A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen.

* Briefe an seinen Freund J. Auerbach ( Letters to his friend J. Auerbach ; posthumous, with a preface by F. Spielhagen, 2 vols., 1884 )

* Forget &# 45 ; Me &# 45 ; Nots ( 1878, posthumous edition, preface by C. W. Wood )

Hussey's posthumous edition ( largely prepared for the press by John Barrow, who wrote the preface ) is important, since in it the archetype of the Codex Regius, the Codex Baroccianus 142, is collated for the first time.

In 2010 a posthumous novel, The Abyss of Human Illusion, was published by Coffee House Press with a preface by Christopher Sorrentino.

In 1639 Goodwin wrote a preface to the posthumous sermons of Henry Ramsden.

Marie de Gournay did so, publishing the first posthumous edition of the Essays with a long preface praising Montaigne's ideas.

From Michael Scriven's preface to Hanson's posthumous Perception and Discovery:

The posthumous publication of Bramhall's Vindication of himself and the Episcopal Clergy from the Presbyterian Charge of Popery, as it is managed by Mr. Baxter, & c., 1672, with a preface by Samuel Parker, produced Andrew Marvell's ' The Rehearsal Transpros'd ,' 1672.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

His views on perceived dangers of Arianism ( still strong among the Visigoths ) led him to preface the Historia with a detailed expression of his orthodoxy on the nature of Christ.

The value of the " Northumbrian Annals ," which Symeon used for the Historia regum, has been discussed by John Hodgson-Hinde in the preface to his Symeonis Dunelmensis opera, vol.

Notable in the preface of Historia brevis regum Dacie, he mentions that reading the works of Latin historians was something that took up much of his time.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

William of Newburgh devotes an extended section of the preface of Historia to discredit Geoffrey, saying at one point " only a person ignorant of ancient history would have any doubt about how shamelessly and impudently he lies in almost everything ".

His other works were: Enegemata in Duos Priores Dioscoridis de Arte Medica Libros ( Antwerp, 1536 ); Commentatio de Introitu Medici ad Ægrotantem, ( Venice, 1557 ); De Crisi et Diebus Decretoriis, ( Venice, 1557 ); In Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica Materia Libros Quinque, ( Venice, 1557 ; Leyden, 1558 ); Enarrationes Eruditissimæ, ( Venice, 1553 ); La Historia de Eutropio ( Eutropius translated into Spanish ); commentary on the first book of Avicenna's Canon, which, as he relates in the preface to the seventh Centuria, he lost among his possessions at Ancona.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.

His journal was first published in 1694, after editing by Thomas Ellwood — a friend and associate of John Milton — with a preface by William Penn.

* Thomas Love Peacock mentions Trimalchio and Niceros in his preface to Rhododaphne ( 1818 ).

In the preface to his 1628 translation of Thucydides, entitled, Eight Bookes of the Peloponesian Warres, political philosopher Thomas Hobbes calls Thucydides " the most politic historiographer that ever writ.

* Thomas Hobbes: Answer to Davenant's preface to Gondibert

R A Rebholz in his preface to Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Complete Poems, comments, ' the problem of determining which poems Wyatt wrote is as yet unsolved '.

It has also been termed less accurately Cranmer's Bible, since Thomas Cranmer was not responsible for the translation, and his preface first appeared in the second edition.

The second edition of 1540, included a preface by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, recommending the reading of the scriptures.

In the preface to The Maid of Honour ( 1632 ) he wrote, addressing Sir Francis Foljambe and Sir Thomas Bland: " I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

It was illustrated by Thomas Bewick ( 1796 ), by Thomas Stothard ( 1800 ), and by Hugh Thomson ( 1896 ), with a preface by RF Sharp.

* Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby ( with a preface by Thomas Baker )

A translation into English, with notes and preface, by Bishop Thomas Percy, was issued in 1770 under the title of Northern Antiquities ( republished with additions in 1847 ).

Thomas Campion, writing in the preface to his first book of lute songs 1601, said of it: "... where the nature of everie word is precisely expresst in the Note ... such childish observing of words is altogether ridiculous.

Thomas Nashe in his preface to Greene's Menaphon ridiculed this performance as his

As Cowley later wrote in her preface to the printed edition of Albina, hers and More ’ s plays do indeed have “ wonderful resemblances .” Fatal Falsehood ’ s opening on 6 May 1779, was followed by charges ( perhaps written by Thomas Cowley ) in the press that More stole her ideas from Cowley.

His classical training was due to Thomas Curgenven, rector of Folke in Dorset, but best known as master of Sherborne school, to whom Creech afterwards dedicated his translation of the seventh idyll of Theocritus, and to whom he acknowledged his debt in the preface to his translation of Horace.

A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller ; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface.

They were edited in 1796 with a preface by John Aikin and in 1858 by Robert Aris Willmott with the poems of Thomas Gray and others.

In the preface to the 1591 Pantometria, ( a book on measurement, partially based on his father's notes and observations ) Leonard's son Thomas lauded his father's accomplishments.

On the fifth page of the preface, Thomas Digges provides a remarkable account of his father's accomplishments:

It consisted of “ a Foreword by The President, Mr. Ross Thomas ; a preface by Mr. W. Fingigan, and an introductory article on Australian birds in general by Mr. A. Chisholm.

He has been identified with the Thomas Shelton who wrote a sonnet prefixed to the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( 1605 ) of Richard Verstegan, who was most likely the friend referred to in Shelton's preface, for there is reason to believe that both of them were then involved in the intrigues of the Roman Catholics in England.

In 1726 a new edition of The Marrow was published, with a preface and extensive annotations by Thomas Boston, defending and expounding the Marrow ’ s teaching as Scriptural.