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• 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)
• 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)

• Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (Center for the Book, Library of Congress :, 1987), by Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (1985), Michael R. Hackenberg, and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
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• 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)

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• Books and the founding fathers (Library of Congress, 1989), by George H. Nash and Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• A reason of the hope (National Publishing Company, 1896), by Robert South Barrett, Fred. W. M. Holliday, Shirley Plantation Records (University of Virginia), and D.C.) National Publishing Company (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Talking books : pioneering and beyond (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1988), by Marilyn Lundell Majeska and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children's stories in American literature 1660-[1896] (C. Scribner's sons, 1895), by Henrietta Christian Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860, by Henrietta Christian Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Forgotten Books of the American Nursery: A History of the Development of the American Story-Book, by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey (Gutenberg ebook)

• Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by David M. Stewart (PDF at Ohio State)

• The returning prodigal. (Wells and Lilly, 1820), by Christian Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devout exercises of the heart, in meditation and soliloquy, prayer and praise (published by Robert Johnson ..., 1806), by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Isaac Watts, and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Brief History of Beacon Press (2003), by Susan Wilson (PDF files at beacon.org)
• Publishing activities of the predecessors of Ticknor and Fields, 1832-1853, based on the cost books of Ticknor and Fields and their predecessors, 1832-1858 (1951), by William H. Patch and University of Michigan. Department of Library Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strictures upon Charles B. Norton, of New-York, book-agent, &c. ([Eatonton, Ga.] : [J.A. Turner], [1853], 1853), by J. A. Turner and Charles B. Norton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (Center for the Book, Library of Congress :, 1987), by Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (1985), Michael R. Hackenberg, and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The 19th century : A history. (Harper, 1880), by Robert Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plague of kaiserdom (California State Printing Office, 1918), by William V. Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old and the new century : an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its ninety-sixth anniversary, Tuesday, November 20, 1900 (Printed for the Society, 1900), by Marvin Richardson Vincent and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Division and reunion, 1829-1889 (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Randolph (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Henry Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little visits with great Americans; or, Success ideals and how to attain them (Success, 1905), by Orison Swett Marden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)

• Catalogue of the library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893. (Printed for the Society [Baltimore, Press of Deutsch lithographing & printing co.], 1893), by Long Island Historical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• The red moon (Neale Publishing Company, 1910), by Eugenie Jones Bacon and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman of Yesterday, by Caroline Atwater Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of Peace, by Irving Bacheller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life, by B. F. Craig (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanderings of French Ed, by J. Adelard René (Gutenberg ebook)

• ...Uncle Sam's soldiers; a story of the war with Spain (D. Appleton and company, 1899), by Oscar P. Austin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)
• The American review of history and politics, and general repository of literature and state papers (Printed for Farrand and Nicholas, 1811), by Robert Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Religion and the founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress ;, 1998), by James H. Hutson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revivalism and social reform; American Protestantism on the eve of the Civil War. (Harper & Row, 1957), by Timothy Lawrence Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• My portfolio : a collection of essays (Charles Scribner, 1882), by Austin Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• A half-century of the Unitarian controversy : with particular reference to its origin, its course, and its prominent subjects among the Congregationalists of Massachusetts : with an appendix (Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1857), by George Edward Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abriss einer Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche in Amerika im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (Steinkopf, 1889), by Adolf Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Separation or continuity, which? (Baltimore : H.H. Smith, [1893], 1893), by I. L. Thomas and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Christianity at the close of the nineteenth century. Essay before the Alumni Association of the General Theological Seminary. June 4, 1895. ([New York, 1895), by William Barroll Frisby (page images at HathiTrust)
• American fraternal greetings to the Wesleyan conferences in Ireland and England (Western Methodist Book Concern, 1898), by J. W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the truth of the Christian religion (Printed for the author by Joseph Israel, 1811), by William Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorized report of the proceedings of the ... congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ... <1884-1885> (Thomas Whittaker, 1884), by Church Congress in the United States and Episcopal Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• State and prospects of religion in America : being a report made at the conference of the Evangelical alliance, in Paris, August 25th, 1855. (R. Carter & Brothers, 1856), by Robert Baird and France) Evangelical Alliance. Conference (1855 : Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Report of] the Foreign Committee of the Board of Missions to the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ([Foreign Mission Rooms, Protestant Episcopal Church], 1876), by Episcopal Church. Board of Missions. Foreign Committee and S. D. Denison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement and appeal of the Foreign Committee : containing : 1st The Epiphany appeal : 2d List of books, etc, on foreign missions : 3d Societies of women auxiliary to the Board of Missions : 4th Parish missionary societies--a paper by Rev. J.E. Sampson, Vicar of York, England : 5th Gleanings from the missionary field, being incidents and facts illustrative of the character and progress of the work of foreign missions. (Cushing, Bardua & Co., Printers and Stationers, 1871), by Episcopal Church. Board of Missions. Foreign Committee and William Hobart Hare (page images at HathiTrust)

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