English essays -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1884), by Francis Bacon, contrib. by A. Spiers and Basil Montagu (multiple formats at archive.org)- The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625 edition), by Francis Bacon (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- The Essays, by Francis Bacon (HTML at esp.org)
- Essays, Civil and Moral, by Francis Bacon (HTML at Bartleby)
- Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
- The Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral, and Wisdom of the Ancients (London: W. Pickering, 1852), by Francis Bacon, ed. by Basil Montagu (page images at Google)
- Elizabethan Critical Essays (2 volumes; Oxford University Press reprint, c1904), ed. by G. Gregory Smith
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Filed under: English essays- The Coverley Papers from the 'Spectator', by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Eustace Budgell, ed. by O. M. Myers (Gutenberg text)
- Essayists Past and Present: A Selection of English Essays (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1925), ed. by J. B. Priestley, contrib. by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alexander Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, E. V. Lucas, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, and Robert Lynd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Essays, English and American (Harvard Classics v28), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward A. Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell
- Prose Masterpieces From Modern Essayists: Froude, Freeman, Gladstone, Newman, Leslie Stephen (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1891), contrib. by James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811), ed. by John Walker
- Modern Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1921), ed. by Christopher Morley, contrib. by John Albert Macy, William Allen White, Rupert Brooke, Don Marquis, David W. Bone, William McFee, Joyce Kilmer, Joseph Conrad, A. P. Herbert, Oscar W. Firkins, Hilaire Belloc, William Osler, Stephen Leacock, Harry Morgan Ayres, Thomas Burke, A. A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, Stuart Pratt Sherman, H. M. Tomlinson, Louise Imogen Guiney, Marian Storm, George Santayana, Simeon Strunsky, George Saintsbury, Bertrand Russell, Philip Guedalla, Robert Palfrey Utter, Logan Pearsall Smith, James Branch Cabell, Robert Cortes Holliday, Harry Esty Dounce, and Robert Cortes Holliday
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., c1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1923), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
- English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Essays on I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysics; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses (London: A. Murray and Co., 1872), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black
- The Spectator: A New Edition, Reproducing the Original Text Both As First Issued and As Corrected by its Authors (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1891), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by Henry Morley
- The Tatler (4 vols; New York: Hadley and Mathews, 1899), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (searchable DjVu at Rutgers)
- Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essays on Philosophical Subjects, by the Late Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c., &c.; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Champion (London, 1739-1740s) (partial serial archives)
- The Seventeenth-Century English Essay (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies v3 #3; ca. 1926), by Elbert N. S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy (2 volumes (each also with "Arte of English Poesie" title page); London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1811-1815), ed. by Joseph Haslewood, contrib. by George Puttenham, George Gascoigne, William Webbe, King James I of England, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, and Gabriel Harvey
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets (Pocket Library of English Literature #6; London: Percival and Co., 1892), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by Thomas Lodge, John Lyly, Nicholas Breton, Robert Greene, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Nash, and Thomas Dekker (Gutenberg text)
- Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), ed. by John Ashton
- The British Bibliographer (4 volumes; London: Printed for R. Triphook by T. Bensley, 1810-1814), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bibliographical Memoranda, in Illustration of Early English Literature (1816), by John Fry (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The British Bibliographer (4 volumes; London: Printed for R. Triphook by T. Bensley, 1810-1814), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Restituta: or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1816), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
- A List, Based on the Registers of the Stationers' Company, of 837 London Publishers (Who Were By Trade Printers, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, etc., etc.) Between 1553 and 1640 A. D. (1890), by Edward Arber
- A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English language, Alphabetically Arranged, Which, During the Last Fifty Years, Have Come Under the Observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. (2 volumes; London: J. Lilly, 1865), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
- 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)
- The Foot Out of the Snare: With a Detection of Sundry Late Practices and Impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England; Whereunto is Added a Catalogue of Such Bookes as in This Authors Knowledge Have Been Vented Within Two Yeeres Last Past in London, by the Priests and Their Agents (London: Printed by H. L. for R. Milbourne, 1624), by John Gee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Views of an Age: A Selection of Late Seventeenth Century Pamphlets From Ellis Library's Rare Book Room (1987) (PDF at Missouri)
- The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance (originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arnold Stein (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood (PDF at Ohio State)
- Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Stephen Booth (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
- Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
- Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Katharine Cleland (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1936), by Hardin Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), ed. by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only)
- Elizabethan Critical Essays (2 volumes; Oxford University Press reprint, c1904), ed. by G. Gregory Smith
- A History of Elizabethan Literature (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
- The Seventeenth-Century English Essay (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies v3 #3; ca. 1926), by Elbert N. S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903), by Thomas Seccombe and J. W. Allen
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