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• Children -- Books and reading -- History -- 18th century
• Children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century

• 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)

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• 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
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  • 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)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• Scholae academicae: some account of the studies at the English universities in the eighteenth century (University press; [etc., etc.], 1877), by Christopher Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord Chesterfield's theory of education (1912), by Flora Alice Denby (page images at HathiTrust)

• An essay towards the encouragement of charity schools : particularly those which are supported by Protestant dissenters, for teaching the children of the poor to read and work : together with some apology for those schools which instruct them to write a plain hand and fit them for service or for the meaner trades and labours of life: to which is prefix'd, an address to the supporters of these schools (Printed for John Clark ... [et al.], 1728), by Isaac Watts (page images at HathiTrust)

• An essay towards the encouragement of charity schools : particularly those which are supported by Protestant dissenters, for teaching the children of the poor to read and work : together with some apology for those schools which instruct them to write a plain hand and fit them for service or for the meaner trades and labours of life: to which is prefix'd, an address to the supporters of these schools (Printed for John Clark ... [et al.], 1728), by Isaac Watts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• An essay on the government of children, under three general heads, viz. health, manners, and education, by James Nelson (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)