Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History
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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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
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Filed under: Books and reading -- Great Britain- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)
- 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)
- Peeps into the Past: Being a History of Oldtime Periodicals, Journals and Books, by Frank Jay, ed. by Justin Gilbert (HTML at archive.org)
- 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
- Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Kathryn M. Rudy (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Glossator (2009-) (full serial archives)
- A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
- 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)
- Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)
- Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)
- A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1979, reissued with a new foreword 2021), by Richard Beale Davis, contrib. by Catherine Kerrison (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
- Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)
- Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)
- Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by David M. Stewart (PDF at Ohio State)
- Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), by Iris Parush (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
- Cambria Triumphans: or, Brittain in its Perfect Lustre, Shewing the Origen and Antiquity of That Illustrious Nation (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for A. Crooke, 1661), by Percy Enderbie
- Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
- The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England, by Mary Platt Parmele (Gutenberg text)
- The Growth of British Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (v4 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (Los Angeles: Angelus University, c1908), by Charles Morris (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688 (Boston: Phillips Sampson and Co., 1856), by David Hume (page images at MOA)
- The Leading Facts of English History (revised edition, c1912), by D. H. Montgomery (Gutenberg text)
- Letters From Lady Jane Coke to Her Friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758 (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899), by Lady Jane Coke, ed. by Florence A. Monica Rathborne (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Short History of England (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Stories From English History, by Alfred John Church
- The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
- Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland; The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire (London: Printed by W. L. for R. Clavell, 1673), ed. by Peter Leycester (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
- A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates (London: Macmillan and Co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
- Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
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