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• 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
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  • 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)

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• 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)
• On the art of reading, lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917 (The University Press, 1920), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 100 best books (G.Arnold Shaw, 1916), by John Cowper Powys and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English books 1475-1900 : a signpost for collectors (C.J. Sawyer Ltd. ;, 1927), by Charles J. Sawyer and F. J. Harvey Darton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Ruskin ... (Ginn, 1888), by John Ruskin, D. H. Montgomery, and Edwin Ginn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies. Two lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864. (J. Wiley & son, 1866), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruskin's Sesame and lilies; three lectures: 1. Of kings' treasuries, 2. Of queens' gardens, 3. The mystery of life (American Book Company, 1916), by John Ruskin and Charles Ralph Rounds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies. Two lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864. (J. Wiley & son., 1865), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies. Three lectures (J. Wiley & sons, 1888), by John Ruskin, Emily Robbins Webster Browne, and Cora Augusta Rand Droppers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in general (A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Ruskin's Sesame and lilies (Silver, Burdett & Company, 1900), by John Ruskin and Agnes Spofford Cook Gale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies, and The king of the Golden River (The Macmillan company;, 1900), by John Ruskin and Herbert Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sesame and lilies. Three lectures (T. Y. Crowell & co., 1891), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young lady on a course of English poetry. (J. Johnson, 1807), by John Aikin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1900), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleasures, objects, and advantages of literature. (G. Routledge and sons, 1866), by Robert Aris Willmott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detached thoughts on books and reading. (Priv. print. for H. Copeland and F. H. Day and their friends, Christmas, 1894), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detached thoughts on books and reading : being one of the last essays of Elia (Plimpton Press, 1910), by Charles Lamb, Bruce Rogers, William Dana Orcutt, Plimpton Press, and Rogers Memorial Collection (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)

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