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• Aesthetics, British -- 19th century
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• Afghanistan -- Foreign economic relations -- 19th century
• American fiction -- 19th century
• American literature -- 19th century
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• Anglo-Indian literature -- 19th century
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• Auction catalogues -- England -- London -- 19th century
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• Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
• Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 19th century
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• Diaries -- California -- 19th century
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• Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation -- 19th century
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• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• Fact Into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Herbert L. Sussman (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Nietzsche and Art (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by Anthony M. Ludovici
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at anthonymludovici.com
• Nietzsche and Art (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1912), by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman (HTML at Bartleby)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900), by Edwin Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse, ed. by George Parsons Lathrop (page images at MOA)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Ladies' Vase of Wild Flowers: A Collection of Gems From the Best Authors (Auburn, MA: J. M. Alden, 1850), ed. by Miss Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Poems, ed. by Charles W. Kent (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Romantic Antiquarianism (2014), ed. by Noah Heringman and Crystal B. Lake (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Rebecca N. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Hollis Clayson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Marie-Stephanie Delamaire and Will Slauter (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• L'Art Ottoman: Les Peintres de Turquie (reprint of 1910 original, in French; Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 1988), by Adolphe Thalasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jonathan P. Ribner (HTML at UC Press)

• A Fable of Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Dore Ashton (HTML at UC Press)

• A Catalogue of the Very Curious, Extensive, and Valuable Library of Richard Cosway, Esq. R. A. (estate auction catalog; 1821), by George Stanley (page images at Harvard)

• The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation from "The Bulletin" (1880-1901) (Sydney: Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1902) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians, Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (Brno: Masaryk University, 2006), by Michael Matthew Kaylor (PDF with commentary at mmkaylor.com)

• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic (2011), ed. by Paul Youngquist and Frances R. Botkin (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Northland Lyrics (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by William Carman Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, and Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, contrib. by Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Correspondance du Cardinal Hercule Consalvi avec le Prince Clément de Metternich, 1815-1823: Lettres et Autres Documents Inédits, Extraits des Archives II. RR. de Vienne et des Archives Privées de S. A. le Prince Paul de Metternich (in French; Louvain: Polleunis et Ceuterick; Brussels: L. Lagaert, 1899), ed. by Charles van Duerm, contrib. by Ercole Consalvi and Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Token for Mourners, With a Selection of Scripture Promises, Relative To the Troubles of Life (Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1835) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Child's Alphabet, Emblematically Described and Embellished by Twenty-Four Pictures, Brought Into Easy Verse, for the Tender Capacities of Young Readers: The Whole Contrived to Allure Children Into the Love of Learning (Glasgow: Printed by J. And M. Robertson, 1805) (page images at Princeton)

• The Dream of Gerontius, by John Henry Newman
  • HTML at newmanreader.org
  • HTML and PDF at CCEL
• Towards Fields of Light: Sacred Poems (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1890), by Edwin Hatch
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust

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