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• History -- To 1500

• 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)

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• Recueil de littérature, de philosophie, et d'histoire. (François L'Honoré, 1730), by Charles-Etienne Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• 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)
• Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century: With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)

• A bookseller of the last century; being some account of the life of John Newbery, and of the books he published, with a notice of the later Newberys. (Printed for Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, successors to Newbery & Harris;, 1885), by Charles Welsh, E.P. Dutton (Firm), and Farran Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• Srpska knjiga : njeni prodavci i čitaoci u XIX veku : pred osvitak XX veka razsmatrao i belezhio (Shtamp. Krajievine Srbije, 1900), by Stojan Novaković (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Künh ül-Ahbar (880-03 [İstanbul] : Takvimhane-yi Âmire, 1277 [1860]-[1285?] [1868?], 1860), by Mustafa bin Ahmet Âli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der geistige Urheber des Verbrechens : nach dem italienischen Recht des Mittelalters (Engelmann, 1911), by Woldemar Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Des céréales en Italie sous les Romains (Durand, 1859), by L.-A. Joseph Michon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire des sciences. La chimie au moyen âge. (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1893., 1893), by M. Berthelot, Octave Victor Houdas, Rubens Duval, and Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historische general beschreibung von Ober- und Nieder-Elsass samt dem Tundgau ... : nach Anleitung einer accuraten Land-Charte in 15 Taffeln in Quarto (zu finden im Felsseckerischen Buch-Laden, 1734), by M. Julius Friedrich Scharfenstein and Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Commentarii de i fatti d'Aquileia. (Forni, 1969), by Giovanni Candido (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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 ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians (Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, Cheapside, 1834), by Charles Rollin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bugari i balkanski Sloveni (Štampa "Tucović", 1926), by Živko D. Petković (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Florentinische bankhäuser der vormediceischen zeit (G. Fischer, 1906), by Otto Meltzing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Gascony under English rule (Methuen, 1926), by Eleanor Constance Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zur Geschichte der Literatur über das Dekret Gratians (Aus der K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1870), by Joh. Friedrich von Schulte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literaturgeschichte der Compilationes Antiquae. (aus der K.K. Hof und Staatsdruckerei, 1871), by Joh. Friedrich von Schulte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ius ecclesiasticum : eine Untersuchung über den Ursprung des Begriffs (Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften :, 1903), by Adolf von Harnack and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Philosophisch-Historische Classe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drei tractate aus dem Schriftencyclus des Constanzer concils (N.G. Elwert, 1876), by Max Lenz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitrag zur Geschichte des canonischen Rechtes von Gratian bis auf Bernhard von Pavia (In Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn, 1873), by Joh. Friedrich von Schulte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Paleae im Decret Gratians (In Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn, 1874), by Joh. Friedrich von Schulte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire de la caricature antique (E. Dentu, 1879), by Champfleury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages, by A. Hamilton Thompson (Gutenberg ebook)

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