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• Great Britain -- 19th century

• On the foreign trade of the country (House of Commons, 1822), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Foreign Trade (page images at HathiTrust)

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• British Isles, English Channel, and North Sea (Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center :, in the 20th century), by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic/Topographic Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir on the origin and incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond. (Printed by J. Darling, 1818), by Joseph Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the report of Her Britannic Majesty's commissioners, appointed to inquire into the condition and management of lights, buoys, and beacons. Submitted March 5, 1861 ... Republished for the use of the U.S. Light-house establishment. (Gov't Print. Off., 1871), by Buoys Great Britain. Royal Commission on Lights and United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• The British Pharos: or, A List of the Lighthouses on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, Descriptive of the Appearance of the Lights at Night, For the Use of Mariners (second edition; Leith: W. Reid and Son, 1831) (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1865), by David Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
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• Report of a Tour of Inspection of European Light-House Establishments, Made in 1873 (Washington: GPO, 1874), by George H. Elliot (multiple formats at Google)
• British lighthouses; their history and romance. (T. F. Unwin, 1913), by J. Saxby Wryde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parliamentary documents : [relating to roads, etc.]. ([London], 1812), by Thomas Telford and Great Britain. Commissioners of the metropolis turnpike roads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir on the origin and incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond. (Printed by J. Darling, 1818), by Joseph Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a tour of inspection of European Lighthouse establishments, made in 1873 (Govt. Print. Off., 1874), by United States Light-House Board and George Henry Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence relative to the comparative advantages of the lighthouse laterns adopted by Corporation of the Trinity house and the Commissioners of northern lighthouses. 1867-1868. (G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1868), by Great Britain Board of Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the report of Her Britannic Majesty's commissioners, appointed to inquire into the condition and management of lights, buoys, and beacons. Submitted March 5, 1861 ... Republished for the use of the U.S. Light-house establishment. (Gov't Print. Off., 1871), by Buoys Great Britain. Royal Commission on Lights and United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouses; their history and romance (The Religious Tract Society, 1895), by William John Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of lighthouse on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. (W. Reid & son, 1831), by Alan Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouses (A. and C. Black, 1864), by David Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition and management of lights, buoys and beacons, together with a letter from Rear-Admiral W.A.B Hamilton ... and appendix and index. (G.E. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1861), by Buoys Great Britain. Royal Commission on Lights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Sir James Nicholas Douglass : F.R.S., &c., &c. (formerly Engineer-in-Chief to the Trinity House.) (Longmans, Green, 1900), by Thomas Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• European light-house systems; being a report of a tour of inspection made in 1873 (Lockwood, 1875), by United States Light-House Board and George Henry Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phares des côtes des îles britanniques cor. au 1er mars 1881. (Imprimerie nationale, 1881), by France. Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eddystone lighthouses, their history,with portraits of Smeaton and Douglas. (J.Smith, in the 1890s), by W. H. K. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The coppie of Sir VVilliam Erskin and Iohn Medrum, their letters patents for the lights at Winterton (London : Imprinted by William Iones dwelling in Red-crosse streete, 1618), by William Erskine and John Meldrum (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Life of Sir James Nicholas Douglass : F.R.S., &c., &c. (formerly Engineer-in-Chief to the Trinity House.) (Longmans, Green, 1900), by Thomas Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse. (T. Nelson and Sons, 1882), by Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The answer of the masters of the Trinitie-house, to the speciall obiections of the patentee, to the keeping of Winterton lights ([London : W. Jones, 1621]), by England) Trinity House (London (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Kings Maiesties letters pattents to Sir William Erskin and Iohn Meldrum, for the lighthouse at Winterton ([London : By W. Jones, 1618]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and James 1566-1625 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Iames by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all our louing subiects greeting forasmuch as wee are credibly informed that there is a very dangerous passage at, and neere a place commonly called by the name of Dungennesse, vpon our coast of Kent ... ([London : B. Norton and J. Bill, 1627]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I), James 1566-1625, and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A narrative of the building and a description of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with stone : to which is subjoined, an appendix, giving some account of the lighthouse on the Spurn Point, built upon a sand (Printed by T. Davison for Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), by John Smeaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The grieuances of the owners and masters of shipping trading to the southwards, against the patent for Dungennesse light ([London : W. Stansby, 1621]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A true medium of the monies payable from 1613. to the yeare 1618. by the masters and owners of divers ships comming in and going forth to sundry ports in the land, and other places beyond the seas for the lights at Winterton According to an order from the Lords of the councell to the officers of the Exchequor and customhouse, and their certificate vpon the same. ([London : S.n., 1621]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Osborne, Viscount Latimer, Lord High Treasurer of England Reasons humbly offered to consideration for the erecting of several light-houses upon the north-coast of England, for the security and increase of navigation &c. viz. 1. A double light-house at St. Nicho. Gat. 2. A light-house upon the Stagger-land at Cromer. 3. A light-house upon flambro-head. 4. A light-house upon Fern-Island. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Richard Phrip (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• At the court at Whitehall, the seventeenth day of January, 1676/7 by the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council. Whereas upon the humble petition of Sir John Clayton knight, setting forth, that by vertue of His Majesties letters patents he had erected at above two thousand pounds charge, several light-houses upon the northern coasts, for the benefit of navigation. ([London : s.n., 1677]), by Edward Walker and England and Wales Privy Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A narrative of the building and a description of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with stone : to which is subjoined, an appendix, giving some account of the lighthouse on the Spurn Point, built upon a sand (Printed by T. Davison for Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), by John Smeaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of the Rock, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Records of a Family of Engineers, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• Records of a family of engineers (Chatto & Windus, 1912), by Robert Louis Stevenson and T. and A. Constable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the committee of the Commissioners of northern lights, appointed to take into consideration the subject of illuminating the lighthouses by means of lenses (Printed by Neill & company, 1835), by Alan Stevenson and Scotland. Northern lighthouse commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leters and miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson. (Scribner's, 1907), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions to lightkeepers. (Printed by Murray and Gibb, 1874), by Scotland. Northern Lighthouse Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House: Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of That Edifice; to Which Is Prefixed a Historical View of the Institution and Progress of the Northern Light-Houses, by Robert Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Lighthouse, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Records of a Family of Engineers, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• Records of a family of engineers (Chatto & Windus, 1912), by Robert Louis Stevenson and T. and A. Constable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketch of the late Robert Stevenson ... (W. Blackwood and sons, 1861), by Alan Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin : records of a family of engineers (Scribner, 1907), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House: Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of That Edifice; to Which Is Prefixed a Historical View of the Institution and Progress of the Northern Light-Houses, by Robert Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Essai géographique sur les Isles britanniques. (De l'Imprimerie de Didot, 1757), by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, P. Chossard, E. Haussard, and J. de la Cruz (page images at HathiTrust)

• A description of the sands, shoals, buoyes, beacons, roads, channels, and sea marks on the coast of England: from the southforeland to Flamborough head, being furnished with new & exact droughts of the sands, acording to the said descriptions / by John Seller, hydrographer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, and are to be sold by him at the Hermitage staires in Wapping. (London : [J. Seller?, 1671?]), by John Seller (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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