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• Ordinaunces decreed for reformation of diuers disorders in pryntyng and vtteryng of bookes ([London : s.n., 1566]), by England and Wales and England and Wales Privy Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Dickens as a Reader, by Charles Kent (Gutenberg ebook)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Proposals for printing Monumenta Britannica, written by Mr. John Aubrey, fellow of the Royal Society viz., I.1. Tempala Druidum, 2. A review, 3. Religion and manners of the Druids, II. 1. Camps, 2. Castles, 3. Military architecture of the old times, 4. Roman towns, 5. Pits, 6. Horns, III. 1. Barrows, 2. Urnes, 3. Sepulchres, 4. Ditches, 5. High-ways. 6. Roman pavements, 7. Coines, 8. Embanking and draining ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

• Proposals for the printing of Guillim's Heraldry ([London : s.n., 1674]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Case betwixt Mr. Pool and Mr. Cornelius Bee considered and decided ([London? : s.n., 1677?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

• A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Hobbs (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Diary and notebook,, by Jane Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Hobbs (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Proposals concerning the printing of a chronological history of England. ([London : s.n.], 1677), by Aylett Sammes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance ordained, devised, and made by the Master, and Keepers or Wardens, and commonalty of the mystery or art of Stationers of the City of London for the well governing of that society. (London : printed for the Company of Stationers, 168[3]), by Stationers' Company (London, England), Francis North Guilford, Francis Pemberton, and Edmund Saunders (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposals for printing of Holwell's Book of dialling. ([London : s.n., 1684]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A proposal tending to the advancement of learning by an unburdensome and practicable encouragement of the press. ([Oxford : s.n., 1675]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century (based on the 1864-1865 Bradbury and Evans edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles Knight, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)

• The Early Oxford Press: A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations, by Falconer Madan (Gutenberg ebook)