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• Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• England -- 19th century
• History -- 19th century

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

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• 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)

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

• 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)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
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• The history of the Catnach Press : at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London (C. Hindley [the younger], 1886), by Charles Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• The Eglinton tovrnament : dedicated to the Earl of Eglinton, Friday Avgvst 30th, 1839. (Hodgson & Graves, 1840), by Edward Henry Corbould (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jim Davis. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1913), by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth, with Locke's music; arranged for representation at the Princess's Theatre, with historical and explanatory notes (J. K. Chapman, 1853), by William Shakespeare, Matthew Locke, Charles John Kean, and England) Princess's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and loyalty : a play in five acts (London : T. H. Lacy, Wellington Street North, Strand, 1854., 1854), by Wm. James Robson and Frederick Bartlett Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three hunchbacks, or The sabre grinders of Damascus; a comic burletta. As performed, for the first time, Jan. 20, 1823, at the Surrey theatre. (J. Lowndes, 1820), by Edward Fitzball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statue (Published for the Proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1821), by Richard Lalor Sheil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frank Fox Phipps : a farce, in one act. (Samuel French & Son ;, 1800), by Charles Selby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The miller's maid : a melo-drama in two acts (London : Printed for the author, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821., 1821), by John Faucit Saville, Robert Bloomfield, and Mr. Jolly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scape-goat : a farce in one act (Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826), by John Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tempest, : a play; by W. Shakspeare. ; With prefatory remarks. The only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian. (Published for the proprietors, by W. Simpkin, and R. Marshall ... and C. Chapple ..., 1823), by William Shakespeare, Thomas Charles Wageman, Charles Melville, Thomas Woolnoth, Clement Chapple, W. Oxberry, John Philip Kemble, Covent Garden Theatre, Simpkin and Marshall, Boston Boston Theatre (Washington Street, and Shakespeare Promptbook Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cymbeline : a tragedy (Published by Wells and Lilly, 1823), by William Shakespeare, John Moore, W. Oxberry, Covent Garden Theatre, A.T. Goodrich & Co, and Wells and Lilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patrician & parvenu, or, "Confusion worse confounded" : a comedy, in five acts (John Miller, 1835), by John Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The patrician's daughter : a tragedy in five acts (London : C. Mitchell, MDCCCXLIII [1843], 1843), by Westland Marston and William Davidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julius Caesar (The Nassau Press, 1898), by William Shakespeare, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and England) Her Majesty's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• King Henry the Fifth (printed by J.K.Chapman and co., 1859), by William Shakespeare, Charles John Kean, and England) Princess's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• A husband to order : a serio comic drama in two acts. (Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1800), by John Maddison Morton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Days of terror! (T.H. Lacy, 1850), by C. H. Hazlewood and Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Falsely accused. (S. French, 1850), by C. H. Hazlewood (page images at HathiTrust)
• False position (London : C. Mitchell, [not before 1849], 1849), by Westland Marston, William Davidge, and William Bayle Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tempest. (J. K. Chapman, 1857), by William Shakespeare, Charles John Kean, England) Princess's Theatre (London, and England) John K. Chapman and Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old curiosity shop : a drama, in two acts. (Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1840), by Edward Stirling and Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second thoughts : a comedy, in two acts (W. Strange, 1835), by John Baldwin Buckstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-hands : a legend of German chivalry; a tragedy in five acts (London : Bosworth and Harrison, 1856., 1856), by Henry Spicer and Edward Loomis Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perfection, or The lady of Munster; a comedy, in one act. (T.H. Lacy, 1850), by Thomas Haynes Bayly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milky white; an original serio-comic drama, in two acts. (S. French, 1890), by H. T. Craven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• King John (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1887., 1887), by William Shakespeare, H. B. Irving, William Aldis Wright, and Shakespeare Promptbook Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adrienne Lecouvreur, a play in five acts. (S. French, 1880), by Ernest Legouvé, Henry Herman, and Eugène Scribe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet (D. Bogue, 1884), by William Shakespeare, David Bogue, David Bogue, Wilson Barrett, and England) Princess's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry the 5th (Samuel French, 1875), by William Shakespeare, Charles Calvert, F. Chippendale, Booth's Theatre, and Shakespeare Promptbook Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear : with an introduction and notes (London ; New York : Macmillan and co. ; 1893., 1893), by William Shakespeare, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Kenneth Deighton, and Shakespeare Promptbook Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
• As you like it. (J. Miles, 1885), by William Shakespeare, William Hunter Kendal, John Hare, England) Saint James' Theatre (Organization : London, and England) J. Miles and Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Lear; a tragedy in five acts as arranged for the stage by Henry Irving and presented at the Lyceum theatre, Nov. 10, 1892. ("Nassau steam press," ltd., 1893), by William Shakespeare and Henry Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant of Venice. a comedy in five acts, as presented at the Lyceum theatre, under the management Of Henry Irving, November 1st, 1879. (printed at the Chiswick press, 1905), by William Shakespeare, Henry Irving, and England) Lyceum Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant of Venice, a comedy in five acts (Chiswick Press, 1891), by William Shakespeare, Henry Irving, and England) Lyceum Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Henry the Eighth (Printed by John K. Chapman, 1855), by William Shakespeare, Charles John Kean, and England) Princess's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's play of A midsummer night's dream : arranged for representation at the Princess's Theatre : with historical and explanatory notes (Printed by John K. Chapman and Co., 1856), by William Shakespeare, Joseph Parker Norris, Charles John Kean, and England) Princess's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bride of Lammermoor : a drama in four acts from Sir Walter Scott's celebrated romance (T.H. Lacy, 1850), by John William Cole and Constance Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The road to ruin : a comedy (London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, [approximately 1860], 1860), by Thomas Holcroft and Edward Dyas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stage-Struck darkey : an interlude in one act (London : Samuel French, publisher, 89, Strand ; New York : Samuel French & Son, publishers, 122 , Nassau Street, [between 1872 and 1878], 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Henry the Eighth (Bradbury and Evans, 1859), by William Shakespeare, Charles John Kean, and England) Princess's Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our recent actors; being recollections, critical, and, in many cases, personal, of late distinguished performers of both sexes, with some incidental notices of living actors. (Roberts Bros., 1888), by Westland Marston (page images at HathiTrust)

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