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• Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)

• Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Jon Mee
  • PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.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)
• The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures (London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope, by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Gutenberg text)

• Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Castle Inn (1898), by Stanley John Weyman, illust. by Walter Appleton Clark
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman Returned from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America, Where He Had Been Sent by the Wicked Contrivances of His Cruel Uncle (London: J. Freeman, 1743), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at Google)

• The Athanasian Creed a Preservative Against Heresies: or, The Reasonableness, and Necessity of Retaining it in the Public Liturgy (London: Printed for J. Crownfield and sold by C. Crownfield, 1735)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Dublin: Printed by R. Draper for B. Dugdale, 1797), by William Wilberforce (Gutenberg text and page images)
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (6th edition, corrected; London: Printed by T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1798), by William Wilberforce
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Protestation Issued by the English Romanists in 1788 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1897), ed. by Andrew James Campbell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pickle the Spy: or, The Incognito of Prince Charles, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Letters Written by Sir Samuel Hood (Viscount Hood) in 1781-2-3, Illustrated by Extracts From Logs and Public Records (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1895), by Samuel Hood, ed. by David Hannay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805 (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1899-1900), ed. by T. Sturges Jackson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, Commander R.N. (1775-1814) (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1906), by James Anthony Gardner, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton and John Knox Laughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), by Bartholomew James, ed. by John Knox Laughton and James Young F. Sulivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (new edition with additions and notes bringing the work down to 1827; 6 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1886), by William James
  • Volume I (1488-1796): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1797-1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1800-1805): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1805-1809): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1809-1813): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume VI (1813-1827): multiple formats at Google; US access only
• The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (new edition with additions and notes bringing the work down to 1827; 6 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by William James
  • Volume I (1488-1796): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1797-1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1800-1805): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1805-1809): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1809-1913): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (1813-1827): multiple formats at archive.org
• Signals and Instructions, 1776-1794; With Addenda to Volume XXIX (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1908), by Julian Stafford Corbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Admiral Phillip: The Founding of New South Wales (London: T. F. Unwin, 1899), by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Life of the Rev. John W. de la Flechere, by Joseph Benson (PDF at nnu.edu)

• A Letter to an English Member of Parliament, From a Gentleman in Scotland, Concerning the Slavish Dependencies, Which a Great Part of That Nation is Still Kept Under, by Superiorities, Wards, Reliefs, and Other Remains of the Feudal Law, and by Clanships (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1746), by John Willison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pickle the Spy: or, The Incognito of Prince Charles, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

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

• The Protestation Issued by the English Romanists in 1788 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1897), ed. by Andrew James Campbell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Protestation Issued by the English Romanists in 1788 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1897), ed. by Andrew James Campbell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Julia H. Fawcett
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Julia H. Fawcett
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Eloquence of Mary Astell (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2005), by Christine Mason Sutherland (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Best of Defoe's Review: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by William Lytton Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure, and Debts of England, During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century (third edition; printed by T. Burton, 1801), by William Playfair (page images here at Penn)

• The Wits and Beaux of Society (New York: Harper and Bros., 1861), by A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Wits and Beaux of Society (2 volumes; 1890), by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, ed. by Justin H. McCarthy, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte (London and New York: John Lane, 1912), by Constance Hill, illust. by Ellen G. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, by Fanny Burney, ed. by W. C. Ward
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text

• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India, by Sake Deen Mahomet, ed. by Michael H. Fisher (HTML at UC Press)

• The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Christine Lehleiter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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