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Britons

Here are entered works on the Celtic people living in Great Britain from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. Works on citizens of the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, or the British overseas territories not currently residing within those jurisdictions are entered under British.

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• Britons -- Origin
• Britons -- Poetry
• Britons -- Religion
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• Celtic Researches: On the Origin, Traditions and Language of the Ancient Briton, With Some Introductory Sketches on Primitive Society (London: Printed for the author, 1804), by Edward Davies
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• Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect (2 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench and Co., 1884), by David MacRitchie
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Mona antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the ancient seat of the British druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a comparative table of primitive words, and the derivatives of them in several of the tongues of Europe; with remarks upon them. Together with some letters, and three catalogues. (Printed for J. Knox, 1766), by Henry Rowlands, Thos Smyth, Edward Lhuyd, Lewis Morris, and Henry Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on ancient Britain and the Britons (J.R. Smith, 1858), by William Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celtic researches, on the origin, traditions & language, of the ancient Britons (Printed for the author, and sold by J. Booth, 1804), by Edward Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesta regum Britanniæ, a metrical history of the Britons of the XIIIth century now first printed from three manuscripts (Printed by G. Gounouilhou], 1862), by Francisque Michel and Cambrian Archaeological Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English works of the late Rev. Eliezer Williams ... with a memoir of his life. (Cradock and Co., 1840), by Eliezer Williams and St. George Armstrong Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Descriptive catalogue of antiquities, chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle. (Andrew Reid, 1880), by Albert Way and J. Collingwood Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Britons (A. Flanagan company, 1903), by Hubert Marshall Skinner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical documents concerning the ancient Britons, consisting of I. Excerpta ex scriptoribus græcis et latinis. II. Gildæ Liber de excidio Britanniæ. III. Nennii Historia Britonum. IV. Excerpta ex Beda, de Britonibus. V. Ricardi Cicestrensis De situ Britanniæ. VI. Vita Gildæ, auctore Caradoco. VII. Vita Gildæ, auctore anonymo. VIII. Inscriptiones ex nummis. IX. Inscriptiones ex lapidibus. (G. Bell, 1847), by J. A. Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hanes yr hen Gymry : eu defodau a'u sefydliadau : o'r cyfnod boreuaf hyd yr amser presenol (J.M. Jones, 1860), by W. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celtic researches (Printed for the author., 1804), by Edward Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the ancient Britons, from the earliest period to the invasion of the Saxons. (G. Bell, 1847), by J Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical documents concerning the ancient Britons (G. Bell, 1847), by J Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and modern Britons : a retrospect (Pine Hill Press, 1991), by David MacRitchie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Breiz Izel; ou, Vie des Bretons dans l'Armorique; cent-vingt dessins d'Olivier Perrin, avec un texte explicatif par Alexandre Bouët (1835) et une notice sur Olivier Perrin (J. Salaun; [etc., etc.], 1918), by Alexandre Bouët, Frédéric Le Guyader, Alexandre Duval, and Olivier Stanislas Perrin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar, by T. Rice Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Suggestions on the ancient Britons in three parts (J. R. Smith, 1853), by George Duckett Barber Beaumont (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Tragedy of Locrine, 1595 (reprinted for the Malone Society, 1908; reprinted 1965), ed. by R. B. McKerrow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine; and Mucedorus (Gutenberg text)
• Cymbeline Refinished (1937), by Bernard Shaw (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• King Lear. (W. A. Moore and C. S. Bernard, 1860), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragedy of Locrine, 1595... (Printed for the Malone society by H. Hart, M. A., at the the Oxford university press], 1908), by Locrine, R. B. McKerrow, and Wentworth Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear : illustrated (American Book Co., 1903), by William Shakespeare and W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear (Houghton Mifflin company, 1909), by William Shakespeare, William Allan Neilson, and Ashley Horace Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear. (The Macmillan company, 1907), by William Shakespeare and Philo M. Buck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear. (Crane & company, 1905), by William Shakespeare and Margaret Hill McCarter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of Cymbeline (D. McKay, 1900), by William Shakespeare and Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear. (Harper & brothers, 1880), by William Shakespeare and W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of Cymbeline. (Ginn, Heath, & co., 1883), by William Shakespeare and Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear (D.C. Heath & Co., 1917), by William Shakespeare, Ernest Bernbaum, and David Nichol Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear. (W. A. Moore and C. S. Bernard, 1860), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear. A tragedy in five acts. (S. French & son;, 1800), by William Shakespeare and John W. S. Hows (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Locrine : a tragedy. (J. B. Alden, 1887), by Algernon Charles Swinburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear. (American book company, 1908), by William Shakespeare and W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear (Printed, for W. Winter, by F. Hart & Co., 1878), by William Shakespeare, William Winter, Edwin Booth, and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear : a tragedy, in five acts (William Taylor, in the 19th century), by William Shakespeare and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragedy of King Lear : (The Macmillan company, 1912), by William Shakespeare, Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, and Shakespeare Promptbook Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear. (J.M. Dent, 1895), by William Shakespeare and Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust)
• König Lear (Insel-Verlag, 1921), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• King Lear. (Anthony Treherne, 1904), by William Shakespeare, Neill and Company, and Anthony Treherne & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Σαικσπήρου Δράματα, Ο Βασιλιάς Ληρ (in Greek), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Dēmētrios Vikelas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le roi Lear (in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kuningas Lear (in Finnish), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Paavo Emil Cajander (Gutenberg ebook)

• Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. English ([Imprinted at London : By Richard Iohnes: and are to be solde at his shop, ioynyng to the southwest doore of Paules Church], 1573), by Humphrey Llwyd and Thomas Twyne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• The Once and Future King (c1958), by T. H. White (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (vol. 16 of The Writings of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Brothers, c1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Harper and Bros., c1889), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (from the authorized edition of the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., c1917), by Mark Twain
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• Nicanor, teller of tales; a story of Roman Britain (A.C. McClurg, 1906), by C. Bryson Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain, by C. Bryson Taylor, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (Gutenberg ebook)

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