Books -- Europe
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Jesse M. Gellrich (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
- Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
- Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
- The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
- 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)
- Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
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Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century: With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)
- The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)
- Charles Dickens as a Reader, by Charles Kent (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
- A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, by Agnes Giberne (Gutenberg ebook)
- Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
- Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Choffard, by Vera Salomons (Gutenberg ebook)
- Ce qu'il faut lire dans sa vie (in French), by Henri Mazel (Gutenberg ebook)
- On the Art of Reading (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1939), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
- Books in General (first series; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books in General: Second Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
- Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866, by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at Bartleby)
- On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
- On the Choice of Books (with a long biographical essay on the author), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Richard Herne Shepherd (Gutenberg text)
- Through the Magic Door, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
- Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Sesame and lilies. Three lectures (New York, J. Wiley & sons, 1888), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books in general, (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines (in French), by John Ruskin, trans. by Marcel Proust (Gutenberg ebook)
- Kuninkaitten aarteet (in Finnish), by John Ruskin, trans. by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila (Gutenberg ebook)
- Why we should read--, by S. P. B. Mais (Gutenberg ebook)
- Feeding the Mind, by Lewis Carroll (Gutenberg ebook)
- One Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading, by John Cowper Powys (Gutenberg ebook)
- In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg ebook)
- The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)
- Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century: With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)
- 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)
- Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
- Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
- Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century: With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)
- A Brief History of Boys' Journals, With Interesting facts About the Writers of Boys' Stories (1913), by Ralph Rollington (illustrated HTML at archive.org)
- Peeps into the Past: Being a History of Oldtime Periodicals, Journals and Books, by Frank Jay, ed. by Justin Gilbert (HTML at archive.org)
- A century of children's books, by Florence V. Barry (Gutenberg ebook)
- Nel mondo dei libri: bizzarrie (in Italian), by Matteo Cuomo (Gutenberg ebook)
- Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
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