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• English literature

• English essays -- 18th century
• English essays -- 19th century
• English essays -- 20th century
• English essays -- Bibliography
• English essays -- Collections
• English essays -- Early modern, 1500-1700
• English essays -- History and criticism
• English essays -- Scottish authors
• English essays -- Single authors

• The Coverley Papers from the 'Spectator', by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Eustace Budgell, ed. by O. M. Myers (Gutenberg text)
• Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays, English and American (HTML at Bartleby)
• Modern Essays, ed. by Christopher Morley (HTML at Bartleby)
• Prose Masterpieces From Modern Essayists: Froude, Freeman, Gladstone, Newman, Leslie Stephen (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1891), contrib. by James Anthony Froude, Edward Augustus Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Contemporary attitudes; essays in many fields of thought, selected and edited by Kendall B. Taft, John Francis McDermott, and Dana O. Jensen. (Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, [c1929]), by Kendall Benard Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays, selected and ed. by John Milton Berdan, John Schultz, and Hewlette Elwell Joyce. (New York, The Macmillan company, 1922), by John Milton Berdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English essayists: a comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin; with introduction, biographical notices, and critical notes. Comp. and arranged by Robert Cochrane. (Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo & co., 1881), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prose masterpieces from modern essayists ... (New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, [1883]), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in little. By Andrew Lang. (London, Henry & co., 1891), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays of William Hazlitt. With an introduction. (London, New York [etc.] The Walter Scott publishing co., [1900?]), by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stray chapters in literature, folk-lore and archaeology. (London, J. Heywood, 1888), by William E. A. Axon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English essays from Sir Philip Sidney Macaulay; with introd., notes and illus. (New York : P. F. Collier, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer : papers from Steele's "Tatler". (New York : Cassell, [1887]), by Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century essays, selected and annotated by Austin Dobson. (London, K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1888), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mixed essays, by Matthew Arnold ... (London, J. Murray, 1903), by Matthew Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English essays, with an introduction by J. H. Lobban. (London [etc.] Blackie & son, limited., 1896), by J. H. Lobban (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A selection from the best English essays illustrative of the history of English prose style chosen and arranged with historical & critical introductions by Sherwin Cody ... (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & company, 1917), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century essays, selected and annotated by Austin Dobson... (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., ltd., 1896), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays : selected from contributions to the Edinburgh review / by Henry Rogers. (London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850), by Edinburgh review (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's best essays, from the earliest period to the present time; (St. Louis, F. P. Kaiser, 1900), by David J. Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great English essayists, with introductory essays and notes, by William J. Dawson and Coningsby W. Dawson. (New York, The H.W. Wilson company, 1932), by W. J. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English essays, with an introduction by J.H. Lobban. (London [etc.] : Blackie & son, limited, 1909), by J. H. Lobban (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays of British essayists : including biographical and critical sketches / with a special introd. by Chauncey C. Starkweather. (New York : Co-operative Publication Society, c1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays of Joseph Addison / chosen and edited by John Richard Green. (London ; New York : Macmillan, 1897 [c1880]), by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays & addresses, 1900-1903, by the Right Hon. Lord Avebury. (London, Macmillan and co., limited; New York, The Macmillan company, 1903), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, moral and polite, 1660-1714, selected and edited by John and Constance Masefield. (London : G. Richards, 1906), by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern essays, selected and ed. by John Milton Berdan ... John Richie Schultz ... and Hewette Elwell Joyce ... (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1915), by John Milton Berdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical, historical, and miscellaneous essays and poems, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. (Chicago : Donohue, Henneberry, 1890), by Thomas Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mixed essays, by Matthew Arnold. (London, Smith, Elder, 1880), by Matthew Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow, South, Latimer, Brown, Milton and Bacon; by Basil Montagu ... (London : W. Pickering, 1829), by Basil Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected English essays / chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (London ; New York : H. Frowde, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected English essays; chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (London, New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1918), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Truths or truisms, by William Stebbing. (London, New York [etc.] H. Frowde, 1911-12), by William Stebbing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A century of English essays: an anthology ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson, & the writers of our time [chosen by Ernest Rhys and Lloyd Vaughan] (London, [etc.] J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., 1915), by Ernest Rhys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected English essays; chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, [1922]), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arrested fugitives, by Sir Edward Russell. (London, J. Nisbit & co., 1912), by Edward Richard Russell Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The philosophy of a don, by G. F. Abbott. (London, S. Swift, 1911), by G. F. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evolution of an intellectual, by John Middleton Murry. ([London] R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1920), by John Middleton Murry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern English essays. (London : J.M. Dent, [1922]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The humour of the underman, and other essays. (London, New York, Lane, 1913), by Francis Grierson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern essays, reprinted from leading articles in "The Times," with an introduction by J. W. Mackail ... (London, E. Arnold, 1915), by England) Times (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences and anticipations, by J. Joly ... (London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1920), by John Joly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays by Leigh Hunt, edited, with introduction and notes, by Arthur Symons. (London, New York [etc.] The Walter Scott publishing co., [1912]), by Leigh Hunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eighteenth century essays, selected and annotated by Austin Dobson ... (New York London, D. Appleton and company, 1914), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essay-writing for schools; a practical exposition of the principles of this form of composition, illustrated by models and by examples drawn from the English classics; and designed to meet the requirements of the public examinations. (London, A. Murray, 1903), by L. Cope Cornford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British essayists; with prefaces, historical and biographical, / by Alexander Chalmers. (London : Longman & Rees, 1817), by Alexander Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oxford English prize essays. (Oxford : D.A. Talboys, 1830-1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British essayists : with prefaces : historical and biographical / by Alexander Chalmers. (London : Printed for J. Johnson [et al.], 1803) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays for college English, selected and ed. by James Cloyd Bowman. 2d series. (Boston, New York [etc.] D.C. Heath and co., [c1918]), by James Cloyd Bowman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miscellanies / by Oscar Wilde. (London : Methuen, 1908), by Oscar Wilde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• At random; essays and stories, by L. F. Austin. (London [etc.] : Lock, 1896), by Louis Frederic Austin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Holiday tasks; being essays written in vacation time. (London, Chatto and Windus, 1887), by James Payn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Three-cornered essays, by the author of "Arm-chair essays, Reminiscences of a clerical and literary life," etc. (London, Ward and Downey, 1890), by Frederick Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary criticism for students, (New York, H. Holt and company, 1893), by Edward T. McLaughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philological inquiries. In three parts. (London, C. Nourse, 1781), by Shakey Jake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religio medici : together with a letter to a friend on the death of his intimate friend and Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne ; edited by Henry Gardiner. (London : W. Pickering, 1845), by Thomas Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in fury, by Arthur D. Lewis. (London, S. Sonnenschein & co. limited, 1904), by Arthur D. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British essayists; with prefaces, historical and biographical, by Alexander Chalmers. (London, Printed for J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Co., D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Co., Pote and Co., Carpenter and Co., W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802-03) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, esq. (London, Printed for H. Lintot, 1743), by Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: with a preliminary essay, by Anna Laetitia Barbauld. (London, Printed for J. Johnson by R. Taylor, 1804), by Mrs. Barbauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scots essayists, from Stirling to Stevenson. Edited, with an introduction, by Oliphant Smeaton. (London, Walter Scott, [1900]), by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The miniature, a periodical paper / by Solomon Grildrig, of the College of Eton [or rather by T. Rennell, H.G. Knight, G. Canning and others] ; inscribed, by permission, to the Rev. Dr. Goodall. (Windsor : Printed and sold for the author, by C. Knight, 1805), by Solomon Grildrig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chips from a German workshop. (London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867-75), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The auto-biography of John Britton ... honorary member of numerous English and foreign societies. In three parts: viz Pt. I. Personal and literary memoir of the author. Pt. II Descriptive account of his literary works. Pt. III. (Appendix) biographical, topographical, critical, and miscellaneous essays ... illustrated. (London, The Author, 1849-1850 [v. 1, 1850]), by John Britton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays / selected and edited by John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, and Hewette Elwell Joyce. (New York : Macmillan, 1916, c1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays moral and literary. By the Reverend Mr. Knox ... (London, E. & C. Dilly, 1779), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator. (London, Printed for Payne, Rivington, [et al, 17--]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select works of Mr. A. Cowley / with a preface and notes by the editor [Richard Hurd]. (Dublin : Printed for J. Exshaw, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleater [and 4 others], 1772), by Abraham Cowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spectator (The) [By Addison, Steele and others] (London, Isaac, Tuckey & Co., 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South, Brown, Fuller and Bacon. First American from the fifth London edition. (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1850), by Basil Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South, Brown, Fuller and Bacon. 1. American from the 5. London edition. (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1851), by Basil Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and miscellaneous writings of T. Noon Talfourd ... (Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1854), by Thomas Noon Talfourd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ledgers & literature; by George Knollys. (London, J. Lane; New York, J. Lane company, 1907 [1906]), by George Knollys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British essayists; with prefaces, historical and biographical, / by Alexander Chalmers ... (New-York: : Published by E. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1809-1811) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces, biographical, historical, and critical, by James Ferguson, Esq. (London, Printed by J. Haddon for G. Offer, 1819) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English essayists; a comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin / with introduction, biographical notices, and critical notes. Compiled and arranged by Robert Cochrane. With portraits. (Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sentimental lucubrations / by Peter Pennyless. (London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1770), by Peter Pennyless (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century essays / selected and annotated by Austin Dobson. (London : K. Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ponderer : a series of essays : biographical, literary, moral, and critical / by John Evans. (London : Sold by Longman, 1812), by John Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected essays, ed. by Claude M. Fuess. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, [c1914]), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The listener / by Caroline Fry. (Philadelphia : G.W. Donohue, 1837), by Caroline Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• An imaged world; poems in prose, with five drawings by William Hyde. (London, J.M. Dent & co., 1894), by Edward Garnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rambler : in three volumes ... (London : Printed by S. and R. Bentley, for F. C. & J. Rivington..., 1823), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Without prejudice, by I. Zangwill. (New York, Century Co., 1896), by Israel Zangwill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The papers of Pastor Felix / Arthur John Lockhart. (Toronto : William Briggs, 1903), by Arthur John Lockhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the old road. A collection of miscellaneous essays, pamphlets, etc., etc., published 1834-1885 ... (Orpington, G. Allen, 1885), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Lover : written in imitation of the Tatler / by Marmaduke Myrtle. To which is added The Reader, both by the author of The Tatler and Spectator. (London : Printed by and for J. Nichols, MDCCLXXXIX (1789)), by Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and miscellaneous essays : collected and republished / by Thomas Carlyle. (London : Chapman, 1890-1894), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pagan papers / by Kenneth Grahame. (London ; New York : J. Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898), by Kenneth Grahame (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The philosopher in slippers : zigzag views of life and society / by the author of "Three-cornered essays". (London : S. Blackett, 1890), by Frederick Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures and addresses on literary and social topics / by Frederick W. Robertson. (Boston : Fields, Osgood, 1869), by Frederick William Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, moral and entertaining. ([London, J. Sharpe], 1819), by Edward Hyde Clarendon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bacon's Essays / with annotations by Richard Whately. (Boston : Crosby, Nichols, 1861), by Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator. With sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes. (Philadelphia : Crissy and Markley, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and thoughts on various subjects, and from various authors, &c. : Together with nine papers from the Olla podrida; and poems. / By the Right Reverend George Horne ... (London: : Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington ..., 1808), by George Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Virginibus puerisque" and other papers / by Robert Louis Stevenson. (New York, [N.Y.] : Current Literature Publ. Co., 1910), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies from life, by the author of "John Halifax, gentleman." (Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1867), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral, economical, and political essays / by Francis Bacon. (Boston : Published at the Water Street Bookstore, 1833), by Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauties, selected from the writings of Thomas De Quincey. (New York, Hurd, 1877, c1862), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• My miscellanies. (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1893), by Wilkie Collins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The contribution of Q.Q. to a periodical work; with some pieces not before published. [Edited by Isaac Taylor, jun.] (New York, G. & C. Carvill, 1827), by Jane Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autumn holidays of a country parson. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1878), by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwater of life; or, Essays of a literary veteran, by James Payn. With an introduction by Leslie Stephen ... (Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz, 1900), by James Payn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral. First published in 1597, and as he left them newly written. With an introduction by H. Morley. (London, G. Routledge and Sons, 1886), by Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lacon: or, Many things in few words; addressed to those who think. (London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837), by Caleb Charles Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaieties and gravities; a series of essays, comic tales, and fugitive vagaries ... By one of the authors of Rejected addresses. (Philadelphia, H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825), by Horace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the writings ... (London, Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1854), by Sidney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oxford essays, contributed by members of the University. 1855, 57. (London, J.W. Parker, [1856-58]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polite miscellany; containing variety of food for the mind; being an elegant collection of moral, humourous, and improving essays, &c, both in prose and verse ... (Manchester, R. Whitworth, 1764) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leisure readings. By Edward Clodd, Andrew Wilson, Thomas Foster, A.C. Ranyard, and Richard A. Proctor ... (London, Wyman & Sons, [1883]), by Richard A. Proctor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays in little. By Andrew Lang. (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1891), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Looker-on : a periodical paper / by Simon Olive-Branch. (London : G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Looker-on (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pagan papers / by Kenneth Grahame. (London ; New York : J. Lane, 1900, c1898), by Kenneth Grahame (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Spectator. (London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler; or, lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (London, Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington [etc.], 1774), by Tatler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chips from a German workshop. (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1870-95), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lounger : a periodical paper published at Edinburgh in the years 1785 and 1786 [i.e. 1787]. (London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London ; Edinburg h : William Creech, 1788) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hood's magazine and comic miscellany. (London : H. Hurst [etc.].) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and miscellaneous writings. With additional articles never before published in this country. (Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1848), by Thomas Noon Talfourd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox. (London, Printed for Charles Dilly, 1785), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Random roaming : and other papers / by Augustus Jessopp ; with portrait. (New York : Putnam, 1893), by Augustus Jessopp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oxford English prize essays. (Oxford : D.A.Talboys, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and studies : prose selections for college reading / chosen and arranged by Frederick M. Smith. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nineteenth century essays, ed. with introduction and notes. (Cambridge : University press, 1912), by George Sampson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eighteenth century essays, selected and annotated by Austin Dobson ... (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1882), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English, science, and engineering; a collection of expository essays for students of science and engineering, selected and ed. by J. Lawrence Eason, A. M., and Maurice H. Weseen. (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company, 1918), by Joshua Lawrence Eason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and The bee / by Oliver Goldsmith. (Boston : Wells and Lilly, 1820), by Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in essay reading; essays for first-year students selected by the Department of rhetoric and journalism of the University of Michigan. (New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, [c1923]), by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choice English extracts,: or selections from the works of Bishops Taylor, Latimer and Hall, Drs. Barrow, South, Brown and Fuller, and Lord Bacon. (New York : A.S. Barnes, 1854), by Basil Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern British essayists. (Philadelphia, A. Hart, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, moral and polite, 1660-1714 / selected and edited by John and Constance Masefield. (London : E. Grant Richards, Printed by T. & A. Constable)., [1913]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, by Alice Meynell. (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1914), by Alice Meynell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The vision of Mirzah. (San Francisco. The Book Club of California, 1917), by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, moral, economical and political / by Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. (London : Printed for J.Sharpe, by C. Whittingham, 1822), by Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Within our limits; essays on questions moral, religious, and historical, by Alice Gardner. (London [etc.] T. F. Unwin, [1913]), by Alice Gardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, by Alice Meynell. (London, Burns & Oates, 1914), by Alice Meynell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mixed essays, by Matthew Arnold. (New York, Macmillan and co., 1879), by Matthew Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old and new in the countryside, by Victoria de Bunsen. (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by Victoria Alexandrina De Bunsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and others, with biographical notes and a critical introduction by Helen K. Johnson ... (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's best essays, from the earliest period to the present time; (St. Louis : F. P. Kaiser, 1900), by David J. Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected essays, (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin company, [c1914]), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century essays / selected and annotated by Austin Dobson. (Boston : Willard Small, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays and stories; a book to awaken appreciation of modern prose, and to develop ability and originality in writing, ed. with introduction, notes, suggestive questions, subjects for written imitation directions for writing, and original illustrations, by Frederick Houk Law. (New York : The Century co., 1922), by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative essays, selected from the series of "Prose masterpieces from the modern essayist." Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey ... [and others] (New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musings without method; a record of 1900-01, by Annalist [pseud.] (Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902), by Charles Whibley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Types of the essay / (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, English and American, ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden ... (Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company, [c1920]), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English familiar essay : representative texts / edited, with introduction and notes by William Frank Bryan, PH.D., and Roland S. Crane, PH.D. (Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and company, [c1916]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian observer. / By the late Hugh Boyd, Esq. With the life of the author, and some miscellaneous poems, by Lawrence Dundas Campbell. (London, : Printed by T. Burton, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davis, 1798), by Hugh Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• English essays selected and ed. by Walter C. Bronson ... (New York : H. Holt and company, 1909), by Walter Cochrane Bronson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A selection from the best English essays illustrative of the history of English prose style; (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & company, 1903), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty essays on literary and philosophical subjects. (Dublin : Printed by Richard White, 1791) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Club essays, by David Swing. (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1889), by David Swing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nineteenth century English prose; critical essays, ed. with introductions and notes by Thomas H. Dickinson and Frederick W. Roe. (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company, [c1908]), by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and reviews of George Eliot not hitherto reprinted; together with an introductory essay on the genius of George Eliot by Mrs. S. B. Herrick. (Boston : Aldine, 1887), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays of British essayists, including biograpical and critical sketches; with a special introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather. (New York, The Colonial Press, [1900]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English essays : from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ; with introductions and notes. (New York : P.F. Collier, c1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representitive essays; comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey [and others] Comp. by George Haven Putnam. (New York & London, G. P. Putnams's sons, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The polite preceptor : or, A collection of entertaining and instructive essays; selected from the best English writers. (London : S. Crowder, 1788) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauties selected from the writings of Thomas De Quincey. (Boston : Houghton, Osgood, 1879), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century of English essays: an anthology ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson, & the writers of our time [chosen by Ernest Rhys and Lloyd Vaughan] (London, [etc.] J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., [1920]), by Ernest Rhys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British essayists: (London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1807-08) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays philosophical, sentimental, and historical sketches. (Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers, 1847), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• English humanists of the nineteenth century. A selection from the works of John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Ruskin. With biographical introductions and a commentary ... (Berlin, Weidmann, 1903-), by Samuel Saenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hours in a library / by Leslie Stephen. (New York : Scribner, Armstrong, 1875-), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ...The great English essayists, with introductory essays and notes, by William J. Dawson and Coningsby W. Dawson. (New York and London, Harper & brothers, [c1909]), by W. J. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The defendant / by G.K. Chesterton. (New York : Dodd, Mead ; London : R. Brimley Johnson, 1902), by G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays literary and miscellaneous. By J. Aikin, M.D. (London, J. Johnson, 1811), by John Aikin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, English and American, edited, with an introd. by Raymond Macdonald Alden. (Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman, [c1918]), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British essayists; with prefaces, historical and critical, by the Rev. Lionel Thomas Berguer; in 45 volumes. (London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and present; or, Social and religious life in the North, by H.G. Reid ... (Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, [1871]), by H. G. Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester papers: a series of occasional essays. Vol. 1. (Manchester : [s.n.], 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and others / with biographical notes and a critical introduction by Helen K. Johnson. (New York : D. Appleton & co., 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical essays contributed to the Eclectic Review / by John Foster ; edited by J.E. Ryland. (London : H. Bohn, 1860), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones. (London ; New York [etc.] : H. Milford, Oxford university press, [1922]), by Edmund David Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The essayes or counsels civill and morall of Francis Bacon, ed.by Walter Worral with an introduction by Oliphant Smeaton. (New York : Dutton, 1900), by Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly review / by Francis B. Head. (London : J. Murray, 1857), by Francis Bond Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gleaner : a series of periodical essays / selected and arranged from scarce or neglected volumes, with an introduction and notes by Nathan Drake. (London : Printed for Suttaby, Evance...[et al.], 1811) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traits of travel; or, Tales of men and cities. By the author of "High-ways and by-ways" ... (New York, Harper, 1829), by Thomas Colley Grattan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spare hours by John Brown. (Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by John Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The eye-witness, : and his evidence about many wonderful things / by Charles Allston Collins. (London : Sampson, Low, Son, and Co., 1860), by Charles Allston Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose masterpieces from modern essayists. (New York, Putnam, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anonymous. (London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British essayists : with prefaces biographical, historical, and critical / by Robt. Lynam, and others. (London : J. F. Dove, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and thoughts of John Foster. By W. W. Everts. (New York, E. H. Fletcher, 1849), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeenth century essays, from Bacon to Clarendon, (New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons, [c1926]), by Jacob Zeitlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator. (New York : E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and addresses on literary and social topics. By the late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ... (Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (London, Printed by C. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The essays : or, Counsels, civil and moral ; and The wisdom of the ancients / by Francis Bacon ; with a biographical notice by A. Spiers, preface by B. Montagu, and notes by different writers. (Boston : Little, Brown, 1856), by Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British essayists : with prefaces, biographical, historical, and critical. (London : Printed for J. Richardson ... [et al.], 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oxford English prize essays. (Oxford : D.A. Talboys, 1830-1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of thought and feeling. / by the author of "Visiting my relations." (London : W. Pickering, 1852), by Mary Ann Kelty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eliana: being the hitherto uncollected writings of Charles Lamb. (New York, Hurd and Houghton; Boston, W. Veazie, 1865), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and miscellaneous essays. (Boston, Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1840), by Thomas Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Companions of my solitude. By the author of "Friends in council"...&c. Reprinted from the English edition. (Boston Cambridge, James Munroe and company, 1852), by Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and miscellaneous essays: collected and republished. (Boston, Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies from life. By the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, etc. (New York, Harper, [1861]), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to the Edinburgh review. By Francis Jeffrey. (London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844), by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of a collection of early newspapers and essayists, formed by the late John Thomas Hope, esq., and presented to the Bodleian library by the late Rev. Frederick William Hope, M.A., D.C.L. (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1865), by Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The de Coverley papers from 'The Spectator' / edited by Joseph Meek. (New York : Dutton, 1920), by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays / selected by Christopher Morley. (New York : Harcourt, Brace and company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humour of Homer, and other essays, by Samuel Butler, ed. by R. A. Streatfeild, with a biographical sketch of the author by Henry Festing Jones, and a portrait in photogravure from a photograph taken in 1889. (London, A. C. Fifield, 1913), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected English essays; chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (London, New York [etc.] H. Frowde, 1903), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays of British essayists, including biographical and critical sketches; with a special introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather. (New York, P. F. Collier, [1900]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hours in a library / by Leslie Stephen. (London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1892), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British essayists; with prefaces, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers. (London, Printed for C. and J. Rivington, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chambers' papers for the people. (London, Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pithy papers on singular subjects / by Old Humphrey [i.e. G. Mogridge]. (London : Religious Tract Society, 1846), by Old Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative essays [selected from the series of "Prose masterpieces from the modern essayists."] Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey [and others] (New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hours in a library, by Leslie Stephen. (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1899), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English essays; ed. by Edward Everett Hale, jr. ... (Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., World book co., 1913), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected essays, 1884-1907. (London : Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1908]), by Augustine Birrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short studies on great subjects. (London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1873), by James Anthony Froude (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose masterpieces from modern essayists .... (London, Bickers, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected prose works of Shelley / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; with foreword by Henry S. Salt. (London : Watts, 1915), by Percy Bysshe Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and addresses, 1900-1903, by the Right Hon. Lord Avebury ... (Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz, 1904), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Idylls of the year. (London : O. Anacker, 1912), by Basil Anderton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, by Wray Hunt. (London, Privately printed by Hatchards, 1899), by Wray Hunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bystander; or Leaves for the lazy, by J. Ashby-Sterry ... (London, Sands & Co., 1901), by J. Ashby-Sterry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cucumber chronicles; a book to be taken in slices. (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887), by J. Ashby-Sterry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elizabethan critical essays / edited with an introduction by G. Gregory Smith. (Oxford: Clarendon press, 1904), by G. Gregory Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hours in a library, by Leslie Stephen. (London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1874-79), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, English and American / With introductions, notes and illus. (New York : Collier, [c1910]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English essays / with an introduction by J.H. Lobban. (London [etc.] : Blackie & son, limited, 1906), by J. H. Lobban (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British essayists : with prefaces, historical and biographical / by A. Chalmers. (Boston : Little, Brown, 1855-1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essayes; or, Moral discourses on several subjects. Written by a person of honour. (London, Printed by H. Bruges for T. Proudlove, 1671), by Thomas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator. (London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1738-39) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of modern essays / edited by Bruce Welker McCullough and Edwin Berry Burgum. (New York : Chicago [etc.] : C. Scribner's sons, [c1926]), by Bruce Welker McCullough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humour of the underman, and other essays, by Francis Grierson. (London, S. Swift & co., ltd., 1911), by Francis Grierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spare Hours, by John Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2, by Thomas De Quincey, ed. by Alexander H. Japp (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay: Complete Table of Contents of the Four Volumes, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by David Widger (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1, by Thomas De Quincey, ed. by Alexander H. Japp (Gutenberg ebook)
• Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American, ed. by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg ebook)
• The De Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator', by Eustace Budgell, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele, ed. by Joseph H. Meek (Gutenberg ebook)
• Masques and Phases, by Robert Baldwin Ross (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl: Sister of that "Idle Fellow.", by Jenny Wren (Gutenberg ebook)
• In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary, by Maurice Hewlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Essays in Rebellion, by Henry Woodd Nevinson (Gutenberg ebook)

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