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• History -- 16th century

• 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)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• 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)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• 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)

• Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Jerome Klinkowitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Form and Reform: Reading Across the Fifteenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Shannon Noelle Gayk and Kathleen Ann Tonry, contrib. by Jessica Brantley, Andrew Cole, Karen A. Winstead, Rebecca Krug, Robert John Meyer-Lee, Mishtooni Bose, and James Simpson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Peter W. Rose (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jews and Their Lies (based on 1948 translation of portions of "Von dem Juden und Iren Lugen" with commentary; Boring, OR: CPA Book Publisher, n.d.), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Von den Jüden und Iren Lügen (in German; Wittenberg: H. Lufft, 1543), by Martin Luther (page images in Germany)
• The Jews and Their Lies (Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon (c2002), by Mary Hoyt Halavais (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century (2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948), by George Kubler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Archivo Mexicano: Documentos para la Historia de México (2 volumes, in Spanish; Mexico City: V. García Torres, 1852-1853) (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500-1700, ed. by Theo Hermans and R. Salverda (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Book-Trade, 1557-1625 (reprinted from the Cambridge History of English Literature v4; 1909), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England; With Special Reference to His Bookbindings (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901), by Cyril Davenport, illust. by William Griggs (Gutenberg text)

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century, by Ida Altman (PDF files at Libro)

• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Matteo Ricci and the Missionary Role in the Evolution of Chinese Lexicon (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), by Zhao Ming (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)

• Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)

• Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation, 1489-1556 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), by A. F. Pollard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

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

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham (PDF with commentary at bill.com)

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo: Assimilating a Minority (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Linda Martz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, As It Was Generally Held During the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; With Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works (London: Chatto and Windus, 1880), by Thomas Alfred Spalding
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, As It Was Generally Held During the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; With Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works (1880), by Thomas Alfred Spalding (Gutenberg text)

• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

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