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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)
• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
  • HTML at github.io
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)

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

• Image [&] Narrative (issues online 2009-) (partial serial archives)
• The Comics Grid (partial serial archives)

• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ainslee's (full serial archives)

• Frank Reade Weekly Magazine, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)
• Happy Days (partial serial archives)
• Tip Top Weekly (full serial archives)

• Frank Reade Library, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)

• The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dime Novels: Bibliography, 1860-1928 (Brooklyn, NY: C. Bragin, c1938), by Charles Bragin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature, by Albert Johannsen (HTML at niu.edu)

• A Catalog of Dime Novel Material, Including a Section on Buffalo Bill (Red Bank, NJ: J.A. Hayes, 1936), by John Alexander Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature, by Albert Johannsen (HTML at niu.edu)

• Dime Novels on Early Oil (Sierra Madre, CA: Stagecoach Press, 1951), by Jack D. Rittenhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dime Novels: or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1929), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare Jest-Books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare (3 volumes; London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864), ed. by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Punch's Almanacks (second series, covering 1862-1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)

• The American Year Book (partial serial archives)
• The World Almanac (partial serial archives)
• The American Year Book and National Register for 1869 (page images at MOA)
• Poor Richard's Almanack (1898 Century Company edition of selections), by Benjamin Franklin (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• The Whig Almanac, and Politician's Register, for 1838 (New York: G. Dearborn and Co., 1838) (page images at Google)

• The Confederate States Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1862 (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1862), ed. by Thomas O. Summers (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Atlantic Monthly Almanac (partial serial archives)

• Banneker's Almanac, by Benjamin Banneker (partial serial archives)

• The Crockett Almanacks: Nashville Series, 1835-1838 (includes text of 4 almanacs, some of which claimed Crockett as author; Chicago: Caxton Club, 1955), ed. by Franklin J. Meine, contrib. by Harry J. Owens and Davy Crockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Good Life Almanac: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom for Readers Interested in Living, Rather Than Existing, Written by Some Country Folk With Ties to Nature, Man, and God's Own World (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1975), ed. by Ruth Smalley (PDF at appstate.edu)

• A. Bailey's Milwaukee Almanac and Business Directory for the Year 1862 (Milwaukee: A. Bailey, ca. 1862), by A. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Royal Kalendar (partial serial archives)

• Whitaker's Almanack, contrib. by Joseph Whitaker (partial serial archives)

• Clavis Astrologiae Elimata: or, A Key to the Whole Art of Astrology, New Filed and Polished (second edition, bound with Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae (1675); London: Printed for B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1676), by Henry Coley, contrib. by Johannes Kepler (PDF at astrologiamedieval.com; 125 MB)

• England Day by Day: A Guide to Efficiency, and Prophetic Calendar for 1904 (London: Methuen, 1903), by E. V. Lucas and Charles L. Graves, illust. by George Morrow
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some illustrations omitted
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• L'Ormogna d'Éi Féçouyrié pér lou Bél on d'Éi bon Diéou: 1887 (Occitan-language almanac) (page images at occitanica.eu and Scribd)

• Almanacco Perpetuo di Rutilio Benincasa Cosentino, Illustrate, e Divisio in Cinque Parti, da Ottavio Beltrano (in Italian; Bassano: G.A. Ramondini, 1732), by Rutilio Benincasa, contrib. by Ottavio Beltrano (page images at HathiTrust)

• Almanaque Manila Galante para el Año 1912 (in Spanish and Tagalog; Manila: J. Fajardo, 1912), ed. by José Sedano Calonge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Calendario Popular Para 1885 (in Spanish; Fregenal: Torrellas, 1884), by Luis Romero y Espinosa (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (full serial archives)
• Improved Lunar Ephemeris, 1952-1959: A Joint Supplement to the American Ephemeris and the (British) Nautical Almanac (Washington: GPO, 1954), by United States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office and Great Britain Nautical Almanac Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Confederate States Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1862 (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1862), ed. by Thomas O. Summers (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Pepysian Garland: Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, Chiefly From the Collection of Samuel Pepys (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1922), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins and Samuel Pepys
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

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