Brief Lives Volume I — John Aubrey's intimate biographical sketches of over 400 notable figures of the English Renaissance, from Shakespeare to Hobbes, compiled between 1669 and 1696.
Brief Lives Volume II — The most important collection of biographical sketches from 17th-century England. Volume II covers lives from I to Y, including Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, John Milton, Isaac Newton, William Penn, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Edmund Waller, and Sir Christopher Wren.
The Wonderfull Yeare — Thomas Dekker's eyewitness pamphlet on the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Great Plague of London, 1603 — one of the masterworks of Jacobean prose.
Works of Anne Bradstreet — The first published poet in the American colonies — Puritan piety and tender domestic observation from the New World.