English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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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)
- 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)
- 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 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
- 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
- Eight Novels Employed by English Dramatic Poets of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and Reprinted From a Copy of That Date in the Bodleian Library (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1846), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by John Payne Collier
- The Phoenix Nest (1593), by R. S. of the Inner Temple (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Poetical Recreations Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c; With Several New Translations, In Two Parts: Part I, Occasionally Written By Mrs. Jane Barker; Part II, By Several Gentlemen of the Universities, and Others (London: Printed for B. Crayle, 1688), contrib. by Jane Barker (HTML at Michigan)
- The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry (2 volumes; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1960), ed. by Ruth Willard Hughey, contrib. by John Harington and John Harington (PDF files at Ohio State)
- The Passionate Pilgrim (from the second edition; London: Printed for W. Iaggard, 1599), contrib. by William Shakespeare (HTML at uvic.ca)
- The Historical and Poetical Medley: or, Muses Library (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1738), ed. by Mrs. Cooper and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Muses Library: or, a Series Of English Poetry (London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1741), by Mrs. Cooper, contrib. by William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by Thomas Proctor, ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905-1921), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by William Chamberlayne, Edward Benlowes, Katherine Philips, Patrick Hannay, Shackerley Marmion, Francis Kinnaston, John Hall, Sidney Godolphin, Philip Ayres, John Chalkhill, Patrick Cary, William Hammond, William Bosworth, John Cleveland, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Thomas Flatman, and Nathaneel Whiting
- Corn from Olde Fieldes: An Anthology of English Poems From the XIVth to the XVIIth Century, With Biographical Notes (London and New York: J. Lane, ca. 1918), ed. by Eleanor M. Brougham
- Merry Drollery Compleat: Being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, etc. (based on the 1691 final edition, omitting some songs from the 1661 edition; Boston, Lincolnshire: R. Roberts, 1875), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. by Herbert J. C. Grierson (HTML at Bartleby)
- Poems, by Anne Killigrew (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Songes and Sonettes, ed. by Richard Tottel (HTML at Virginia)
- Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684, ed. by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
- The Passionate Pilgrim (attributed to Shakespeare and various other authors), contrib. by William Shakespeare
- The Passionate Pilgrim: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1599, From the Copy in the Christie Miller Library of Britwell (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1905), ed. by Sidney Lee, contrib. by William Shakespeare
- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ed. by Thomas Percy (multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com)
- The Pack of Autolycus: or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings As Told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624-1693 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at Rochester)
- Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland: Re-Published From the Collection of G. Colman and B. Thornton, Esqrs., With Considerable Alterations, Additions, and Improvements (2 volumes; London: W. Stafford, n.d.), ed. by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, contrib. by Mary Barber, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Lee Chudleigh, Catharine Trotter, Constantia Grierson, Mary Jones, Anne Killigrew, Mary Leapor, Mary Masters, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Monck, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (page images at HathiTrust)
- Supplement of Reserved Songs From Merry Drollery, 1661 (ca. 1876), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (HTML and PDF at horntip.com)
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