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• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: Including the Works of Foreigners Written In, or Translated Into the English Language (4 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1882-1888), by Samuel Halkett and John Laing, ed. by Catherine Laing, contrib. by Henry B. Wheatley
  • Volume 1 (A-E): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (F-N): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (O-Tis): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Tit-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The English Catalogue of Books (partial serial archives)
• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Catalog of Copyright Entries, by Library of Congress Copyright Office (partial serial archives)

• Cumulative Book Index, by H.W. Wilson Company (partial serial archives)
• The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature (partial serial archives)

• Cumulative Book Index, by H.W. Wilson Company (partial serial archives)

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• A Description and an Analysis of The Bibliography of American Literature (Philadelphia: Pennslyvania Historical Survey, 1941), by Edward Hayes O'Neill and Pennsylvania Historical Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• PAL (Perspectives in American Literature): A Research and Reference Guide (electronic edition), by Paul P. Reuben (HTML at csustan.edu)

• A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at diglib.org)

• A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at diglib.org)

• The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (1922), by New York Public Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest Albert Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature, by Albert Johannsen (HTML at niu.edu)

• A Catalog of Dime Novel Material, Including a Section on Buffalo Bill (Red Bank, NJ: J.A. Hayes, 1936), by John Alexander Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg (PDF at ed.gov)
• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (combined electronic edition), by William G. Contento (HTML at ev1.net)

• The Standard Index of Short Stories (the published volume, covering 1900-1914, and unpublished typescript volumes, covering 1915-1933), by Francis James Hannigan
  • 1900-1914 volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 A-Glaciers volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 Glad-Ozaki volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 P-Z volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Illinois! Illinois! An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction (electronic edition, covering up to 1997), by Thomas L. Kilpatrick and Patsy-Rose Hoshiko (illustrated HTML at siu.edu)

• Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico and Adjacent Lands, by Lawrence Clark Powell (HTML at Arizona)

• Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico and Adjacent Lands, by Lawrence Clark Powell (HTML at Arizona)

• Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, ed. by John W. Cousin (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (London: J.M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910), by John W. Cousin (Gutenberg text)

• A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century (3 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1891-1908), by S. Austin Allibone
  • Volume I (introduction, and A-L): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (M-S): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (T-Z, and indexes): multiple formats at archive.org
• A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1902), by John Foster Kirk, contrib. by S. Austin Allibone
  • Volume I (A-G): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (H-Z): multiple formats at archive.org

• Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works, by Virginia Daley (HTML at Duke)

• Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works, by Virginia Daley (HTML at Duke)

• American First Editions: Bibliographic Check Lists of the Works of 146 American Authors (revised and enlarged edition; New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1932), by Merle De Vore Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• James Thurber: A Bibliography (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by Edwin T. Bowden (PDF at Ohio State)

• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991, by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at umn.edu)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism, by Linnea Hendrickson (searchable text files at unm.edu)

• Bibliography of Georgia Authors, 1949-1965 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1966), by John Wyatt Bonner (PDF and DjVu at Georgia)

• PAL (Perspectives in American Literature): A Research and Reference Guide (electronic edition), by Paul P. Reuben (HTML at csustan.edu)

• A Calendar of Confederate Papers, With a Biblography of Some Confederate Publications: Preliminary Report of the Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission, Prepared Under the Direction of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (Richmond: Confederate Museum, 1908), by Douglas Southall Freeman and Confederate Memorial Literary Society Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Canadian Children's Books, 1799-1939, in the Special Collections and University Archives Division, The University of British Columbia Library: A Bibliographical Catalogue, ed. by Sheila A. Egoff (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Brief History of Boys' Journals, With Interesting facts About the Writers of Boys' Stories (1913), by Ralph Rollington (illustrated HTML at archive.org)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism, by Linnea Hendrickson (searchable text files at unm.edu)

• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest Albert Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Universal Sherlock Holmes (web version, 2000), by Ronald Burt De Waal, ed. by George A. Vanderburgh (HTML at umn.edu)

• Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg (PDF at ed.gov)
• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (combined electronic edition), by William G. Contento (HTML at ev1.net)

• The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815; With a Catalogue of 1375 Magazine Novels and Novelettes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1962), by Robert D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)

• One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages, by Grolier Club, contrib. by George Edward Woodberry (page images at CMU)

• New Paths: Verse, Prose, Pictures, 1917-1918, ed. by Cyril W. Beaumont and Michael Sadleir, illust. by Anne Estelle Rice (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960, by John W. Velz (page images at uvic.ca)

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