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• A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New (London: Chatto and Windus, ca. 1873), by Henry Curwen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Shadows of the Old Booksellers (London: Bell and Daldy, 1865), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Riceyman Steps, by Arnold Bennett (HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New (London: Chatto and Windus, ca. 1873), by Henry Curwen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England, by Walter Clarke Phillips (HTML at digitalpixels.org)
• Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England, by Mary Platt Parmele (Gutenberg text)
• The Growth of British Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), by John Robert Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English, by Charles Morris (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
• The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688 (Boston: Phillips Sampson and Co., 1856), by David Hume (page images at MOA)
• The Leading Facts of English History (revised edition, c1912), by D. H. Montgomery (Gutenberg text)
• Letters From Lady Jane Coke to Her Friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758 (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899), by Lady Jane Coke, ed. by Florence A. Monica Rathborne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates (London: Macmillan and Co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Short History of England (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Stories From English History, by Alfred John Church
  • Part I: illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project
  • Part II: illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project
  • Part III: illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project
• The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
• Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of England, From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377) (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), by T. F. Tout (PDF at Case Western)

• Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henri IV (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1857), by Jean Froissart, ed. by Thomas Johnes, contrib. by John Lord (page images at MOA)
• The History of England, From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377) (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), by T. F. Tout (PDF at Case Western)
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google

• Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and Notes (6 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1823), by Gilbert Burnet, contrib. by Martin Joseph Routh and Thomas Burnet
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Supplement to Burnet's History of My Own Time: Derived from His Original Memoirs, His Autobiography, His Letters to Admiral Herbert, and His Private Meditations, All Hitherto Unpublished (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1902), ed. by H. C. Foxcroft (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• Records of Stirring Times, Based Upon Unpublished Documents From 1726-1822 (Londo : W. Heinemann, 1908), by Charlotte Anne Albinia Disbrowe, contrib. by M. Montgomery-Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Ode on the Peace (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1783), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures (London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by John Robert Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of England, From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783 (3rd ed.; Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853-4), by Philip Henry Stanhope (page images at MOA)
• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope, by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Gutenberg text)

• The Constitutional History of England, From 1760 to 1860 (1882), by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816-1846 (2 volumes; London: Charles Knight, 1849-1850), by Harriet Martineau
  • Volume I (1816-1830): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1830-1846): multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of England From the Commencement of the XIXth Century to the Crimean War (4 volumes; Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1864), by Harriet Martineau
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, With an Introduction, 1800 to 1815, by Harriet Martineau
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA
  • volume III: page images at MOA
  • volume IV: page images at MOA

• The Life of King Alfred, by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at OMACL)
• The Story of King Alfred (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901), by Walter Besant (PDF at djm.cc)

• The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (HTML at thebookofdays.com)
• Cameos From English History, From Rollo to Edward II, by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• Chambers's Book of Days (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1879), by Robert Chambers (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of Other Countries of Europe from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201 (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), by Roger of Hoveden, ed. by Henry T. Riley
  • Volume I (732-1180): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1181-1201): multiple formats at archive.org
• Chronicle of The Abbey of St. Edmund's, by Jocelin de Brakelond, trans. by Lionel Cecil Jane, contrib. by Francis Aidan Gasquet (HTML with commentary at csudh.edu)
• The History of England, From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216), by George Burton Adams (Gutenberg text)

• Anglo-Saxon Britain, by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest (1876 edition), by John Mitchell Kemble, ed. by Walter de Gray Birch
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster

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