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• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

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• Writing in Knowledge Societies (c2011), ed. by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Steven Watts (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

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

• Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Michael S. Kearns (PDF at Ohio State)

• An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere, Folio 1632, and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier (London: R. Bentley, 1860), by N. E. S. A. Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio in the Possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. (New York: Redfield, 1853), by John Payne Collier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy, Concerning the Authenticity and Genuineness of Manuscript Matter Affecting the Works and Biography of Shakspere, Published by Mr. J. Payne Collier as the Fruits of His Researches (London: Nattali and Bond, 1861), by C. M. Ingleby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Review of "An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotatated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier", by N. E. S. A Hamilton (Bentley) (anonymous review attributed to Dixon, with Collier's reply to Hamilton's inquiry; New York: Printed for private circulation by C. W. Frederickson, 1860), by William Hepworth Dixon, contrib. by John Payne Collier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A New Edition, Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished (3 volumes; Westminster: A. Constable, 1895), ed. by James Gairdner (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509: New Complete Library Edition (6 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus; Exeter: J. G. Commin, 1904), ed. by James Gairdner (HTML and zipped PDF at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Tacitus and Bracciolini: The Annals Forged in the XVth Century (1878), by John Wilson Ross (Gutenberg text)

• Glossator (2009-) (full serial archives)

• 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)

• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Steven Watts (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by James L. Machor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Vernon Lionel Shetley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text (London: A. Moring, 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Philology and its Histories (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Sean Alexander Gurd (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), ed. by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Francesca Rashmi Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Betty A. Schellenberg
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The King James Version Defended (originally published 1956; published with preface by Letis in 1983), by Edward F. Hills, contrib. by Theodore P. Letis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• The Rise of Historical Criticism, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)

• The Art and Science of Victorian History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Rosemary Jann
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Rękopisma Marcina Radymińskiego (in Polish; Krakow: J. Czecha, 1840), by Józef Muczkowski
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • DjVu in Poland

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, 2007), by Michelle Burnham (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Collaboration of Webster and Dekker (Yale Studies in English #37; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by F. E. Pierce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), by Guinn Batten (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jews and Their Lies (based on 1948 translation of portions of "Von dem Juden und Iren Lugen" with commentary; Boring, OR: CPA Book Publisher, n.d.), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Von den Jüden und Iren Lügen (in German; Wittenberg: H. Lufft, 1543), by Martin Luther (page images in Germany)
• The Jews and Their Lies (Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon (c2002), by Mary Hoyt Halavais (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century (2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948), by George Kubler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Archivo Mexicano: Documentos para la Historia de México (2 volumes, in Spanish; Mexico City: V. García Torres, 1852-1853) (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500-1700, ed. by Theo Hermans and R. Salverda (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Book-Trade, 1557-1625 (reprinted from the Cambridge History of English Literature v4; 1909), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England; With Special Reference to His Bookbindings (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901), by Cyril Davenport, illust. by William Griggs (Gutenberg text)

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