Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain- The Romance of Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1911), by Frank Arthur Mumby, contrib. by W. H. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shadows of the Old Booksellers (London: Bell and Daldy, 1865), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Random Recollections of an Old Publisher (2 volumes; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.; Bournemouth: Bright's, 1900), by William Tinsley
- Sixty Years a Bookman, With Other Recollections and Reflections (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1923), by Joseph Shaylor
- A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer
- A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1907), by Henry R. Plomer
- A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
- A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
- A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New (London: Chatto and Windus, ca. 1873), by Henry Curwen
- Riceyman Steps (c1923), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
- "True Biographies of Nations?" The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, 2019), ed. by Karen Fox (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
- Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal (based on the 1858 edition, with annotated names; 2010), by Cyrus Redding, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Mary Warnock: Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by P. J. Graham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Reminiscences of a Literary Life (based on the 1917 J. Murray edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles MacFarlane, ed. by John Tattersall and David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
- Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
- Great Englishmen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by M. B. Synge (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Men Who Have Made the Empire (third edition; London: C. A. Pearson, 1899), by George Chetwynd Griffith, illust. by Stanley L. Wood
- Personalia: Intimate Recollections of Famous Men, Political, Literary, Artistic, Social, Various (published under "Sigma" pseudonym; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Julian Osgood Field
- Portraits, Memoirs and Characters, of Remarkable Persons From the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution, Collected From the Most Authentic Accounts Extant (new edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, 1813), by James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
- Studies in Contemporary Biography (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text)
- Uncensored Celebrities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by E. T. Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Circle of Friends: the Tennysons and the Lushingtons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by John O. Waller (PDF at Ohio State)
- Celebrated Cambridge Men, A.D. 1390-1908 (Cambridge, UK: A. P. Dixon; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1910), by C. G. Griffinhoofe
- Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; To Which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq.; and Lives of Eminent Men (2 volumes in 3; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), ed. by John Walker, contrib. by John Aubrey and Thomas Hearne
- Stories of Old Families (Edinburgh and London: W. and R. Chambers, 1878), by William Chambers
- The Nabobs in England: A Study of the Returned Anglo-Indian, 1760-1785 (Columbia University PhD dissertation; 1926), by James M. Holzman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of Eminent Etonians; With Notices of the Early History of Eton College (London: R. Bentley, 1850), by Edward Shepherd Creasy (multiple formats at Google)
- Alumni Etonenses: or, A Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, From the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, With an Account of Their Lives and Preferments (Birmingham: Printed by T. Pearson, 1797), by Thomas Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Brief Lives", Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696 (2 volumes; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1898), by John Aubrey, ed. by Andrew Clark
- Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The General Magazine and Impartial Review (London, 1787-1792) (full serial archives)
- A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (4 volumes; London: H. Graves and Co., 1899-1901), by Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, contrib. by Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
- Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland; With Lists of Their Works (enlarged and continued; 5 volumes; London: Printed for J. Scott, 1806), by Horace Walpole and Thomas Park
- A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of Their Works (new edition; Edinburgh: Printed for W.H. Lunn, et al., 1796), by Horace Walpole (multiple formats at Google)
- Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
- Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
- Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Grand Old Man: or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable Wiliam Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Lives of Scottish Worthies (3 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1831-1833), by Patrick Fraser Tytler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents, by Alexander Whyte (Gutenberg text)
- The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
- The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself (new edition with notes and supplement, in 2 volumes; London: J. C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, ed. by Robert William Lowe, illust. by Robert Bowyer Parkes and Adolphe Lalauze
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