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• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

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

• London Street Games (second edition, 1931), by Norman Douglas (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

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

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• William Shakspere's Petty School (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1943), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645) (2 volumes; London: Burns and Oates, 1882-1885), by Mary Catharine Elizabeth Chambers, ed. by Henry James Coleridge
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

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

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Improvements in Education, As It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (London: Darton and Harvey, 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (multiple formats at Google)

• The Study of Man (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Bliss, Sands, and Co., 1898), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; With an Edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke, The Most Noble, Auncient, And learned Playe (1563) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Ann E. Moyer, contrib. by Ralph Lever and William Fulke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)
• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)