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• 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)
• Biographical and literary anecdotes of William Bowyer, printer, F.S.A. (Printed by the author, 1782), by John Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. (University press, 1840), by Bodleian Library and Francis Douce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the curious and extensive library of the late James Bindley, esq., F.S.A. ... (Printed by W. Bulmer & co.], 1818), by James Bindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of books in English later than 1700. (Priv. print, 1905), by Robert Hoe and Carolyn Shipman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A register of 18th century bibliographies and references : a chronological quarter-century survey relating to English literature, booksellers, newspapers, periodicals, printing & publishing, aesthetics, art & music, economics, history & science; a preliminary contribution. (V. Giorgio, 1950), by Francesco Cordasco (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London catalogue of books (Printed for W. Bent, 1791) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mercurius librarius (London, 1903), by Edward Arber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of original and early editions of some of the poetical and prose works of English writers from Wither to Prior : with collations, notes, and more than two hundred facsimiles of title-pages and frontispieces. (Grolier Club, 1905), by Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven XVIIIth century bibliographies (Dulau & company, ltd., 1924), by Iolo Aneurin Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A General catalogue of books in all languages, arts, and sciences, that have been printed in Great Britain (London, 1786) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of English literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (J.W. Walker, 1926), by John Williams Walker and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The library of Mrs. Elizabeth Vesey, 1715-1791. The first of the blue-stockings, the friend of Laurence Sterne, Horace Walpole, Goldsmith, Gray, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Montagu, etc., etc., and the hostess of Dr. Johnson and the 'club'. With other literature of the eighteenth century. (W. H. Robinson, 1926), by William H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appendix to The London catalogue of books : containing the new publications, and the books that have been altered in size and price, since August 1799 to the end of the year 1800. (Printed by M. Brown, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monthly catalogue containing an exact register of all books, semons, plays, poetry and miscellaneous pamphlets, printed and published in London, or the universities, from .. (Gregg Press, in collaboration with the Archive Press, 1723), by John Wilford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete catalogue of modern books published from the beginning of this century, to the present time, with the prices affixed. To which is added, A catalogue of the school books now in general use. Any books in the following catalogue, that are now in print, may be had, on the shortest notice, of [blank space for name of bookseller to be inserted] ([s.n.], Printed in the year, 1766) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general catalogue of books in all languages, arts, and sciences, printed in Great Britain, and published in London, from the year MDCC to MDCCLXXXVI. Classed under the several branches of literature, and alphabetically disposed under each head, with their sizes and prices. (Printed for W. Bent, 1786), by William Bent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London catalogue of books in all languages, arts and sciences, that have been printed in Great Britain, since the year M.DCC. properly classed under the several branches of literature and alphabetically disposed under each head. With their sizes and prices. (London, 1773) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London catalogue of books (Printed for W. Bent by M. Brown, 1799) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Monthly catalogue: an exact register of all books, sermons, plays, poetry, and miscellaneous pamphlets, printed and published in London, or the universities [1723-1730], with a compleat index to the whole. (Gregg P.;, 1964) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A transcript of the registers of the worshipful Company of Stationers; from 1640-1708 A.D. ... (Priv. Print, 1913), by Stationers' Company (London, England), George Edward Briscoe Eyre, and Roxburghe Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca annua. (Gregg Press-Archive Press, 1700) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Term catalogues, 1668-1709, (A.D.; with a number for Easter term, 1711 A.D.) : A contemporary bibliography of English literature in the reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne (Library Resources, 1903), by Edward Arber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliotheca Brandiana. (P. Da Ponte, printer, 1807), by John Brand (page images at HathiTrust)
• London Catalogue of Books... : with their sizes and prices. ([s.n.], 1773) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directions for a proper choice of authors to form a library : which may both improve and entertain the mind, and be of real use in the conduct of life ... (Printed for J. Whiston, 1766), by John Whiston and N. N. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Britwell Court Library. (Printed by J. Davy & Sons, 1919), by Christie-Miller Family. Library (Britwell Court), Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller, and England) Sotheby & Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts bequeathed by Francis Douce, Esq., to the Bodleian Library (University Press, 1840), by Bodleian Library and Francis Douce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, Vol. 3: Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe, ed. by Carolyn Shipman, contrib. by Robert Hoe (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, Vol. 2: Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe, ed. by Carolyn Shipman, contrib. by Robert Hoe (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, Vol. 1: Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe, ed. by Carolyn Shipman, contrib. by Robert Hoe (Gutenberg ebook)

• English literature of the 18th century (Maggs Bros., 1919), by Maggs Bros (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of the Larpent plays in the Huntington Library (The Library, 1939), by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Dougald MacMillan, and John Larpent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Brittische bibliothek. (Leipzig., 1757), by Carl Wilhelm Mueller (page images at HathiTrust)

• A history of early eighteenth century drama, 1700-1750 (University Press, 1925), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of late eighteenth century drama, 1750-1800 (The University Press, 1927), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815; With a Catalogue of 1375 Magazine Novels and Novelettes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1962), by Robert D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Epistolary Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study (Eugene: University of Oregon, 1940), by Frank Gees Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rise of the Novel of Manners: A Study of English Prose Fiction Between 1600 and 1740 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), by Charlotte E. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The 18th century novel, a handlist of general histories and articles of the last twenty-five years with a notice of bibliographichal guides (Long Island University Press, 1950), by Francesco Cordasco (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of English tales and prose romances printed before 1740 (Bibliographical Society, 1912), by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Advice-to-a-painter poems, 1633-1856 : an annotated finding list (The University of Texas, 1949), by Mary Tom Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topographical poetry in XVIII-century England (The Modern Language Association of America, 1936), by Robert Arnold Aubin (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• Eighteenth Century Literature (New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1929), ed. by Richard Foster Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection; With Several Pieces Never Before Published (new edition, 6 volumes; London: J. Debrett, 1786), ed. by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on Various Subjects, by the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1772), by Catherine Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Foundling Hospital for Wit (6 volumes originally published 1743-1749), ed. by Charles Hanbury-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the eighteenth century III : papers presented at the third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1973 (Australian National University Press, 1976), by Canberra David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar. 3d, J. C. Eade, and Richard Francis Brissenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fugitive pieces (Printed for J. Debrett, 1785), by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthology of romanticism ... (T. Nelson and sons, 1929), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthology of Romanticism ... (T. Nelson and sons, 1931), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Oliver Goldsmith (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908), by Oliver Goldsmith and Frederick Simpson Coburn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The vicar of Wakefield; a tale supposed to be written by himself ... (Allyn & Bacon, 1899), by Oliver Goldsmith and R. Adelaide Witham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New foundling hospital for wit. Being a collection of fugitive pieces, in prose and verse, not in any other collection. With several pieces never before published. (Printed for J. Debrett, 1784), by James Frederick Dudley Crichton-Stuart and John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century poetry & prose (Ronald Press Co., 1956), by Louis I. Bredvold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of celebrated authors, of whose writings there are but small remains. (Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Indian in English literature of the eighteenth century (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1925), by Benjamin Hezekiah Bissell (page images at HathiTrust)
• English literary criticism : restoration and 18th century (Appleton-Century-Crofts,c1963., 1963), by Samuel Hynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• English humorists of the eighteenth century : Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith (The Century co., 1906), by William Hogarth, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith, Laurence Sterne, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century studies : Essays \ (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881), by Francis Hitchman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the eighteenth century, IV : papers presented at the Fourth David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1976 (Australian National University Press, 1979), by David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar (4th : 1976 : Canberra), J. C. Eade, and R. F. Brissenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• English poetry and prose of the romantic movement, selected and edited, with notes, bibliographies, and a glossary of proper names (Scott, Foresman and company, 1929), by George Benjamin Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• An eighteenth century miscellany; the classics of the eighteenth century which typify and reveal an era: Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay...[and others] (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1936), by Louis Kronenberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington Irving und seine Beziehungen zur englischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde vorgelegt der Hohen philosohischen Fakultät der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg (C. Pfeffer, 1911), by Ferdinand Künzig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith. (William P. Nimmo, 1867), by Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The eighteenth century (The University press?], 1916), by W. P. Ker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eighteenth century poetry & prose (Ronald Press, 1939), by Louis I. Bredvold, Lois Whitney, and Algan Dugald McKillop (page images at HathiTrust)
• English humorists of the eighteenth century (The Century Co., 1907), by William Hogarth, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith, Laurence Sterne, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poetical works of Philip, late Duke of Wharton; and others of the Wharton family, and of the Duke's intimate acquaintance. (London, 1731), by Arabella Plantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British moralist, or, Young gentleman and lady's polite preceptor : being a new collection of novels, tales, fables, visions, dreams, allegories; selected from those writings of Brooke, Goldsmith, Johnson, Hume, Hawkesworth, Langhorne, Smollet, Sterne, Mulso, Murphy, Shenstone, Miss Carter and other celebrated modern ... (Printed for Robinson and Roberts ..., 1771) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profils anglais (Dent ;, 1907), by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Foundling Hospital for Wit : intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them. Containing all the satires, odes, ballads, epigrams, &c., that have been wrote since the change of the ministry, many of which have never been printed. no. 1-6, 1743-1749. (W. Webb, 1763) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Asylum for fugitive pieces : in prose and verse, not in any other collection : with several pieces never before published. (Printed for J. Debrett, 1785), by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reader, or reciter; by the assistance of which any person may teach himself to read or recite English prose with the utmost elegance and effect. To which are added, instructions for reading plays. On a plan never before attempted. (Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1799) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harrison's British classicks. (Printed for Harrison & Co., 1785), by Thomas Stothard, Richard Steele, John Armstrong, William Shenstone, William Melmoth, Samuel Johnson, George Lyttelton, Hugh Kelly, and Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant extracts; or, Useful and entertaining passages, from the best English authors and translations. (Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842), by Vicesimus Knox and James Gates Percival (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Guardian (Printed for Harrison and Co., 1785), by Joseph Warton, Richard Bathurst, Samuel Johnson, John Hawkesworth, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Joshua Reynolds, William Thomas Fry, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Sir Charles Grandison : in a series of letters (Printed for Thomas Walker ..., 1780), by Samuel Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expedition of Humphry Clinker (Derby & Jackson, 1859), by T. Smollett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the eighteenth century; papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1966 (Australian National University Press, 1968), by A.C.T.) David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar (1966 : Canberra, R. F. Brissenden, and Australian National University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charms of literature : consisting of an elegant assemblage of curious, scarce, and interesting pieces, in prose and poetry : divided into pathetic, sentimental, humorous, moral, and gothic subjects (Printed and sold by J. Mitchell, 1805), by Thomas Bewick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hero in the romantic quest in the English novel, 1790-1850 (1920), by Bruce Weirick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Works of the most celebrated minor poets. Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon [and others] To which are added pieces omitted in the works of Sir John Suckling [and others] In three volumes. (Printed for J. Loyseau, 1751) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleine Schriften ein Beytrag zur Völker-und Länderkunde, Naturgeschichte und Philosophie des Lebens (In der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1794), by Georg Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleine Schriften ein Beytrag zur Völker-und Länderkunde, Naturgeschichte und Philosophie des Lebens (In den Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1796), by Georg Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowper's Task, books III & IV, The Garden and The Winter Evening ; and Colerage's Friend, essays III-VI, Life of Sir Alexander Ball (Copp, Clark, 1887), by H. I. 1841-1919 Strang and A. J. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Daniel Defoe (D. Nickerson, 1903), by Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier, G. H. Maynadier, John Wilson and Son, and David Nickerson Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century letters (A.D. Innes & Co., 1897), by R. Brimley Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill, Stanley Lane-Poole, Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Samuel Johnson, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The beginnings of the English romantic movement; a study in eighteenth century literature. (Ginn & co., 1899), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces ... (Printed for T. Davies, 1773), by Samuel Johnson and Thomas Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chapbooks. (E.G. Richards, 1905), by Robert Herrick and John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romantic period (T. Nelson, 1930), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Britons through Negro spectacles : or, A Negro on Britons with a description of London illustrated (Imperial and foreign Company, 1909), by A. B. C. Merriman-Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthology of romanticism (T. Nelson and Sons, 1938), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English humorists of the eighteenth century (Heath, 1911), by William Makepeace Thackeray and Frederick Edward Bumby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellanies (second series). (AMS Press, 1970), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A second volume of the writings of the author of the True-born Englishman. Some whereof never before printed. (Printed and sold by the Booksellers, 1705), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 2: Religious and Scriptural: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, Classified, by Dougal Graham (Gutenberg ebook)
• John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 1: Comic and Humorous: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, Classified, by Dougal Graham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith, by Oliver Goldsmith, contrib. by H. W. Dulcken, illust. by George Dalziel and George John Pinwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century: With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men (Gutenberg ebook)

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