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• Authors and their public in ancient times : a sketch of literary conditions and of the relations with the public of literary producers, from the earliest times to the fall of the Roman Empire, by George Haven Putnam (Gutenberg ebook)

• Glossator (2009-) (full serial archives)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)

• Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by James L. Machor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Vernon Lionel Shetley (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The openhearted audience : ten authors talk about writing for children (Library of Congress :, 1980), by Virginia Haviland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Victorians and their reading. (Houghton Mifflin, 1935), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shaping of English literature and the readers' share in the development of its forms (George G. Harrap, 1927), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shaping of English literature and the readers' share in the development of its forms (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1927), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dei lettori e dei parlatori; saggi due. (Tip. Andreola, 1842), by Giuseppe Bianchetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• A poem, delivered in Taunton, September 16th, A.D. 1807, at the anniversary election of the Philandrian society. (Belcher & Armstrong, Printers, 1807), by David Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)

• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Other mindedness : the emergence of network culture (University of Michigan Press, 2000), by Michael Joyce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Those Barren Leaves (c1925), by Aldous Huxley (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)

• A poem, delivered in Taunton, September 16th, A.D. 1807, at the anniversary election of the Philandrian society. (Belcher & Armstrong, Printers, 1807), by David Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)

• Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ellen D. Finkelpearl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self : subject and nation in literary discourse (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Yasmin Syed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Writing in Knowledge Societies (c2011), ed. by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
• Droit romain. De la condition des auteurs en Grèce et à Rome. Droit français. Des droits d'auteur dans les rapports internationaux ... (A. Rousseau, 1888), by Etienne Bricon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and their public in ancient times : a sketch of literary conditions and of the relations with the public of literary producers, from the earliest times to the fall of the Roman Empire, by George Haven Putnam (Gutenberg ebook)

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Michael S. Kearns (PDF at Ohio State)

• Hamlet, and As you like it : A specimen of a new edition of Shakespeare. (J. Murray, 1819), by William Shakespeare, Thomas Davison, John Murray, William Crowe, and Thomas Caldecott (page images at HathiTrust)

• History and historians in the nineteenth century (Longmans, Green, 1913), by G. P. Gooch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber (G. Reimer, 1824), by Leopold von Ranke (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art and Science of Victorian History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Rosemary Jann
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere, Folio 1632, and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier (London: R. Bentley, 1860), by N. E. S. A. Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio in the Possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. (New York: Redfield, 1853), by John Payne Collier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy, Concerning the Authenticity and Genuineness of Manuscript Matter Affecting the Works and Biography of Shakspere, Published by Mr. J. Payne Collier as the Fruits of His Researches (London: Nattali and Bond, 1861), by C. M. Ingleby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Review of "An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotatated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier", by N. E. S. A Hamilton (Bentley) (anonymous review attributed to Dixon, with Collier's reply to Hamilton's inquiry; New York: Printed for private circulation by C. W. Frederickson, 1860), by William Hepworth Dixon, contrib. by John Payne Collier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Shakespere; a critical biography and an estimate of the facts, fancies, forgeries, and fabrications, regarding his life and works, which have appeared in remote and recent literature. (Houlston and Wright, 1861), by Samuel Neil (page images at HathiTrust)
• J. Payne Collier's alte Handschriftliche emendationen zum Shakspere (H.B. König, 1853), by Nikolaus Delius (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• Recollections of the table-talk of Samuel Rogers. ; To which is added Porsoniana. (D. Appleton and Company, 1856), by Samuel Rogers, William Maltby, and Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations with Walt Whitman (E.P. Coby & Co., 1895), by Sadakichi Hartmann, Gustave Percival Wiksell, Thomas Biggs Harned, Walt Whitman, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress), Walt Whitman Collection (Library of Congress), and Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• Die orthographie der Paston letters von 1422-1461. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der englischen orthographie. (N. G. Elwert, 1904), by Georg Karl Neumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Salutatio in den mittelalterlichen Briefstellern bis zum 14. Jahrhundert. (H. Adler, 1912), by Paul Karl Friedrich Krüger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tacitus and Bracciolini: The Annals Forged in the XVth Century (1878), by John Wilson Ross (Gutenberg text)

• Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text (London: A. Moring, 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shakespeare's editors and commentators. (J.R. Smith, 1865), by W. R. Arrowsmith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)
• Famous introductions to Shakespeare's plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century (Dodd, Mead and company, 1906), by Beverley E. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rise of Historical Criticism, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Histoire et historiens depuis cinquante ans; méthodes, organisation, et résultats du travail historique de 1876 à 1926; recueil publié à l'occasion du cinquantenaire de la "Revue historique" avec la collaboration de: (F. Alcan, 1927), by Christian Pfister (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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