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Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
Verboden Boeken, Geschriften, Couranten, enz. in de 18e Eeuw: Eene Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis der Haagsche Censuur (2 parts, in Dutch; Haarlem: W. C. de Graaff, 1881-1882), by A.J. Servaas van Rooijen
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The Judging of Jurgen (Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1920), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Exhibited in an Account of Her Damnatory Catalogues or Indexes, Both Prohibitory and Expurgatory, With Various Illustrative Extracts, Anecdotes, and Remarks (second edition; London: J. Duncan, 1830), by Joseph Mendham (page images at HathiTrust)
The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, Briefly Explained for Catholic Booklovers and Students (second edition; St. Louis, MO: B. Herder; et al., 1909), by Francis S. Betten
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The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, Briefly Explained for Catholic Booklovers and Students (fifth edition; St. Louis, MO, and London: B. Herder, 1920), by Francis S. Betten (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
Verbotene Literatur von der klassischen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart; ein kritisch-historisches Lexikon über verbotene Bücher, Zeitschriften und Theaterstücke, Schriftsteller und Verleger. (E. Rowohlt, 1924), by H. H. Houben (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Censorship under Louis XIV, 1661-1715; some aspects of its influence (Institute of French Studies, 1929), by Harriet Dorothea MacPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai historique sur la liberté d'écrire chez les anciens et au moyen âge. (Crapelet, 1832), by Gabriel Peignot (page images at HathiTrust)
Romances of chivalry in the Spanish Indies : with some registros of shipments of books to the Spanish colonies (University of California Press, 1933), by Irving A. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
The Roman index of forbidden books. (Loyola university press, 1925), by Francis Sales Betten (page images at HathiTrust)
What is the Index? (Bruce, 1952), by Redmond A. Burke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Books fatal to their authors (E. Stock, 1895), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Index der verbotenen bücher. (Herdersche verlagshandlung, 1904), by Joseph Hilgers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
He who destroyes a good booke, kills reason it selfe; an exhibition of books which have survived fire, the sword, and the censors ([Lawrence], 1955), by University of Kansas. Libraries, Earl Farley, and Joseph Rubinstein (page images at HathiTrust)
La censura de imprenta en Filipinas (V. Suárez, 1908), by W. E. Retana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ioannis Frederici Reitzii Oratio de censoribvs librorvm, publice habita in Academiae Trajectinae auditorio majore, a.d. III. calend. apriles CIC IC CC LI. quum rectoris magnifici dignitate abiens fasces traderet succedenti sibi viro clarissimo Gisberto Woertmanno. (Trajecti ad Rhenum, ex officina I. Broedelet, 1751), by Johan Frederik Reitz (page images at HathiTrust)
Mélanges (E. Champion, 1920), by Frédéric Lachèvre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le commerce des livres prohibés à Paris de 1750 à 1789. (B. Franklin, 1962), by Jean Paul Belin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Index der verbotenen Bücher : Ein Beitrag zur kirchen- und literaturgeschichte (Verlag von M. Cohen & Sohn (Fr. Cohen), 1883), by F. H. Reusch (page images at HathiTrust)
Storia polemica delle proibizioni de'libri, scritta da Francesantonio Zaccaria ... (G. Salomoni, 1777), by Francescantonio Zaccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
Index librorum prohibitorum Leonis XIII sum. pont. auctoritate recognitus SS. D. N. Benedicti P. XV iussu... (typis polyglottis vaticanis, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Indices librorum prohibitorum des seehzehnten jahrhunderts (Gedruekt für den Litterarischen verein in Stuttgart, 1886), by F. H. Reusch (page images at HathiTrust)
Gendai bungei hikka shi. (1924), by Shōzō Saitō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hikkashi (Asakaya Shoten, 1926), by Gaikotsu Miyatake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kinshibon shomoku (Akama Kōbundō, 1927), by Tohō Akama (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Index romanus : Verzeichnis sämtlicher auf dem römischen Index stehenden deutschen Bücher, desgleichen aller wichtigen fremdsprachlichen Bücher seit dem Jahre 1750 (G. Pillmeyer's Buchhandlung (J. Jonscher), 1911), by Albert Sleumer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Censur und confiscation hebräischer Bücher im Kirchenstaate. Auf Grund der Inquisitions-Akten in der Vaticana und Vallicellana (J. Kauffmann, 1891), by Abraham Berliner (page images at HathiTrust)
Importancia de la prohibicion de malos libros,: esplanada en la defensa que ha hecho de los Sres. obispos, así sobre este, como sobre otros puntos propios de su jurisdiccion, un literato oculto bajo el nombre de: El Retirado. (Imp. de Valdés, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Roman index of forbidden books (B. Herder, 1920), by Francis Sales Betten (page images at HathiTrust)
Books fatal to their authors (A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1895), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Extracts principally from English classics: showing that the legal suppression of M. Zola's novels would logically involve the bowdlerizing of some of the greatest works in English literature. ([s.n.], 1888), by Henry Vizetelly and George Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
L'Index commentaire de la constitution apostolique "Officiorum" (Roger et Chernoviz, 1898), by G. Péries and Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII) (page images at HathiTrust)
Censur und Confiscation hebräischer Bücher im Kirchenstaate. (Druck von H. Itzkowski, 1891), by Abraham Berliner (page images at HathiTrust)
The censorship of the church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature; a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of censorship by the state (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1906), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Index Romanus; Verzeichnis sämtlicher auf dem römischen Index stehenden deutschen Bücher, desgleichen aller fremdsprachlichen Bücher seit dem Jahre 1870. (G. Pillmeyer, 1906), by Albert Sleumer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
M. Io. Christiani Klotzii ... De libris auctoribus suis fatalibus : liber singularis. (Ex Officina Langenhemia, 1761), by Jo. Christianus Klotzius (page images at HathiTrust)
Cartas peruanas entre Filaletes y Eusebio; ò, Preservativo contra el veneno de los libros impios y seductores que corren en el pais ... (Rios, Masias, y Concha, 1826), by José Ignacio Moreno (page images at HathiTrust)
Romans à lire et romans à proscrire : essai de classification au point de vue moral des principaux romans et romanciers (1800-1922) ; avec notes et indications practiques (Bureaux de la Revue des lectures, 1920), by Louis Bethléem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An account of the indexes, both prohibitory and expurgatory, of the Church of Rome... (Hatchard, 1826), by Joseph Mendham and Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
Index librorum prohibitorum a Sixto v., papa, confectus et publicatus : at verò a successoribus ejus in sede romana suppressus (apud Jacobum Duncan, 1835), by Joseph Mendham (page images at HathiTrust)
La Censura (Madrid, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
Neue kunde von alten Bibeln, mit zahlreichen beiträgen zur kultur- und literaturgeschichte Roms am ausgange des sechzehnten jahrhunderts (Im selbstverlag des verfassers, 1922), by Paul Maria Baumgarten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Libros y libreros en el siglo XVI. (Tip. Guerrero, 1914), by Francisco Fernández del Castillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Das kirchliche Bücherverbot : mit zwei kleinern einleitenden Aufsätzen : Ueber die kirchliche Freiheit und Ueber das Studium des Kirchenrechts (Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1858), by Joseph Fessler (page images at HathiTrust)
Neue kunde von alten Bibeln, mit zahlreichen beiträgen zur kultur- und literaturgeschichte Roms am ausgange des sechzehnten jahrhunderts (Im selbstverlage des verfassers, 1922), by Paul Maria Baumgarten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Roman index of forbidden books briefly explained for Catholic booklovers and students (B. Herder, 1909), by Francis Sales Betten (page images at HathiTrust)
The censorship of the church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature : a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of censorship by the state (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1906), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Q.D.B.V. (Halae Magdebvrgicae, 1736), by Justus Henning Böhmer and Joannes Adolphus Bucherus (page images at HathiTrust)
Indices librorum prohibitorum et expurgandorum novissimi, Hispanicus et Romanus, anno M. DC. LXVII (Ex typographaeo Didaci Diaz, 1667), by Antonio Sotomayor (page images at HathiTrust)
Arrests du Parlement et ordonnances de Monseigneur l'archevesque de Paris. Portant la deffense & suppression des livres héretiques. Avec l'édit du Roy, portant deffenses de faire aucun exercice public de la R(eligion) P(rétendue) R(eformée) dans son royaume. (F. Leonard, 1685), by France. Parlement (1946- ) (page images at HathiTrust)
Der hebräische index expurgatorius. (Itzkowski, 1903), by Nathan Porges (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue des ouvrages condemnés comme contraires à la morale publique et aux bonnes moeurs, du 1er janvier 1814 au 31 décembre 1873. Première période; deuxième période, 1er janvier 1850 au 31 décembre 1873. (A. Wittersheim & Cie., 1874), by Librairie des Publications Législatives. Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
Index romanus : Verzeichnis sämtlicher auf dem römischen Index stehenden deutschen Bücher, desgleichen aller wichtigen fremdsprachlichen Bücher seit dem Jahre 1750 (G. Pillmeyers Buchhandlung, 1915), by Albert Sleumer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De prohibitione et cunsura librorum : dissertatio canonico-moralis (Typis Societatis Sanctis Joannis :, 1906), by A. Vermeersch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Books fatal to their authors (Elliot Stock, 1989), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die strafbestimmungen gegen die unzüchtigen schriften in geschichtlicher darstellung ... (Buchdr. M. Zöller, 1910), by Adam von Nagʹorski and Germany (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dernière correspondance entre S.E. le cardinal Barnabo et l'Hon. M. Dessaulles ([s.n.], 1871), by L. A. Dessaulles and A. C. Barnabo (page images at HathiTrust)
Decretum feria II. die 12 Julii 1869 : sacra congregatio ... cardinalium a SanctissimoDomino Nostro Pio Papa IX sanctaque sede apostolica Indici librorum .. (Typographia Rev. Cam. Apostolicae, 1869), by Église catholique. Pape (1846-1878 : Pie IX) (page images at HathiTrust)
Circulaire au clergé les deux lettres ci-jointes sont le complément de celle du 10 mars dernier ... par rapport aux mauvais livres et aux mauvais journaux .. (s.n., 1858), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) and Ignace Bourget (page images at HathiTrust)
Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur l'évêque de Montréal Ignace Bourget ... les grands et les chers intérêts de vos âmes, qui nous obligent, nos très-chers frères .. (s.n., 1841), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) and Ignace Bourget (page images at HathiTrust)
Extrait d'une lettre de Monseigneur Poynter, évêque d'Halie et vicaire apostolique du district épiscopal de Londres à Monseigneur l'évê que de Québec en date du 6 octobre, 1823 (s.n., 1823), by William Poynter (page images at HathiTrust)
Toqué le Nouveau-Monde n'en revient pas, et il n' en reviendra pas .. (s.n., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
Circulaire de Mgr. l'évêque de Montréal au clergé de son diocèse condamnation de la brochure "La source du mal de l'époque au Canada, par un catholique". (s.n., 1884), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1876-1886 : Fabre) and Edouard C. Fabre (page images at HathiTrust)
Circulaire au clergé de lugubres placards annonç ant depuis quelque temps l'apparition d'un nouveau livre .. (s.n., 1871), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) and Ignace Bourget (page images at HathiTrust)
Extrait d'une circulaire de Mgr. E.-A. Taschereau, archevêque de Québec, 2 février 1884 (s.n., 1884), by E.-A. Taschereau (page images at HathiTrust)
Circulaire au clergé depuis quelques semaines il se publie à Québec un journal hebdomadaire intitulé "Le Réveil", je crois devoir prémunir les fidèles contre les doctrines .. (s.n., 1876), by Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque (1870- 1898 : Taschereau) and E.-A. Taschereau (page images at HathiTrust)
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau par la grâce de Dieu ... nous croyons de notre devoir ... de condamner publiquement une certaine brochure .. (s.n., 1882), by Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque (1870- 1898 : Taschereau) and E.-A. Taschereau (page images at HathiTrust)
Charles-François Baillargeon par la miséricorde de Dieu ... c'est avec une profonde douleur, nos très-chers coopérateurs, que nous avons pris connaissance d'une brochure intitulé: Réponse aux dernières attaques dirigées par M. l'abbé Chandonnet .. (s.n., 1868), by Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque (1867- 1870 : Baillargeon) and Charles-François Baillargeon (page images at HathiTrust)
Lettre aux religieuses enseignantes du diocèse (s.n., 1890), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe. Évêque (1876- 1901 : Moreau) and Louis-Zéphirin Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
Verboden lectuur : Een drietal Indices librorum prohibitorum toegelicht (E.J. Brill, 1889), by C. Sepp (page images at HathiTrust)
Index librorum prohibitorum sanctissimi domini nostri Leonis XIII jussu editus. (Typographia Pontificia, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
Inquisition, Intoleranz, Exkommunication, Interdikt, Index, Zensur : Sektenwesen, Hexenwahn und Hexenprozesse, Rechtsanschauungen (K. J. Wyss, 1908), by Franz Heinemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Censorship and the U.S. Senate ... (Washington, D.C., 1930), by Richard Wallace Hogue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les mauvais livres, les mauvais journaux et les romans, avec un catalogue de mauvaises publications périodiques et de mauvais livres et une liste de romanciers du jour. (Imprimerie de m. Vanderborght, 1843), by J. B. Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
The literary inquisition of Chʻien-Lung (Waverly press, inc., 1935), by L. Carrington Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Book censorship in New Spain. (Austin, Tex., 1949), by Dorothy Schons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Nadzor za knigoĭ : opyt sistematizat︠s︡ii materialov o t︠s︡enzuri︠e︡ dopetrovskui︠u︡ ėpokhu : ocherk po istorii russkago prava (Izd. i︠u︡ridichskago knizhnago magazina, 1916), by S. V. Bezsonov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
O indexech zakázaných knih : index římský a indexy české : knížka pro každého českého člověka (Nákl. vyd-va Volné myšlenky, 1911), by František Loskot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Roman index of forbidden books briefly explained (Loyola University Press, 1940), by Francis Sales Betten and Book Arts Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Condamnation et prohibition d'un ouvrage qui a pour titre Histoire du Peuple de Dieu, depuis la naissance du Messie, jusqu'à la fin de la synagogue &c. seconde partie, avec un recueil de dissertations : & à la fin, une défense ou apologie de la même seconde partie. (A Rome : [publisher not identified], MDCCLVIII [1758], 1758), by Catholic Church. Pope (1740-1758 : Benedict XIV), João Chagas, and Conde de Sucena (page images at HathiTrust)
Censur und Confiscation hebräischer Bücher im Kirchenstaate. Auf Grund der Inquisitions-Akten in der Vaticana und Vallicellana. (H. Itzkowski, 1891), by Abraham Berliner (page images at HathiTrust)
Le commerce des livres prohibés à Paris de 1750 à 1789. (Belin frères, 1913), by Jean Paul Belin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Index librorum prohibitorum sanctissimi domini nostri Leonis XIII jussu editus. (Typographia Pontificia et Archiep., 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Roman index of forbidden books briefly explained (Loyola University Press, 1932), by Francis S. Betten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Roman Index of forbidden books (B. Herder, 1915), by Francis S. Betten (page images at HathiTrust)
Edital da Real Meza Censoria : Dom José por graça de Deos rey de Portugal, e dos Algarves, daquém, e dalém mar, em Africa ... : sendo examinado o livro, intitulado: Desengano dos peccadores, que a meza congregada em plena assemblea resolveo supprimir, não só pelos erros theologicos, que na letra delle se contém, mas igualmente pelas ridiculas estampas, de que foi estofado ... ([Lisboa] : [Regia Officina Typografica], [1771], 1771), by Portugal. Real Mesa Censória, Impressão Régia (Portugal), and Portugal. Sovereign (1750-1777 : Joseph) (page images at HathiTrust)
Edital da Real Meza censoria : Dom José por graça de Deos rei de Portugal ... faço saber a todos que este edital virem, que em repetidas conferencias ... ([Lisboa] : Na Regia officina typografica, [1771], 1771), by Portugal. Real Mesa Censória, Impressão Régia (Portugal), and Portugal. Sovereign (1750-1777 : Joseph) (page images at HathiTrust)
Verbotene Literatur von der klassischen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart; ein kritisch-historisches Lexikon ub̈er verbotene Bücher, Zeitschriften und Theaterstücke, Schriftsteller und Verleger. (K. Rauch, 1925), by H. H. Houben (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Second beacon fired humbly presented to the Lord Protector and the Parliament by the publishers of the first : with their humble petition, that they would do what may be expected from Christian magistrates, in suppressing blasphemous books. (London : Printed for the subscribers hereof, 1654), by Luke Fawne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Judicium & decretum Universitatis Oxoniensis latum in convocatione habita Jul. 21, an. 1683, contra quosdam perniciosos libros & propositiones impias. English ([Oxford] : Printed at the Theater, 1683), by University of Oxford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Judicium & decretum Universitatis Oxoniensis latum in convocatione habita Jul. 21, an. 1683, contra quosdam perniciosos libros & propositiones impias quae capitibus sacratissimorum principum, eorum statui & regimini, & omni humanae societati exitium intentant. ([Oxonii] : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1683), by University of Oxford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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