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• Proposals for the printing of Guillim's Heraldry ([London : s.n., 1674]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Case betwixt Mr. Pool and Mr. Cornelius Bee considered and decided ([London? : s.n., 1677?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

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• Proposals for printing Monumenta Britannica, written by Mr. John Aubrey, fellow of the Royal Society viz., I.1. Tempala Druidum, 2. A review, 3. Religion and manners of the Druids, II. 1. Camps, 2. Castles, 3. Military architecture of the old times, 4. Roman towns, 5. Pits, 6. Horns, III. 1. Barrows, 2. Urnes, 3. Sepulchres, 4. Ditches, 5. High-ways. 6. Roman pavements, 7. Coines, 8. Embanking and draining ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

• A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Hobbs (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Diary and notebook, 1833-1839 and 1851. (1833), by Jane Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Hobbs (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The life of Sir George Newnes, bart. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Hulda Friederichs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Proposals concerning the printing of a chronological history of England. ([London : s.n.], 1677), by Aylett Sammes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance ordained, devised, and made by the Master, and Keepers or Wardens, and commonalty of the mystery or art of Stationers of the City of London for the well governing of that society. (London : printed for the Company of Stationers, 168[3]), by Stationers' Company (London, England), Francis North Guilford, Francis Pemberton, and Edmund Saunders (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposals for printing of Holwell's Book of dialling. ([London : s.n., 1684]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A proposal tending to the advancement of learning by an unburdensome and practicable encouragement of the press. ([Oxford : s.n., 1675]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century (based on the 1864-1865 Bradbury and Evans edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles Knight, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
• Passages of a working life : during half a century, with a prelude of early reminiscences. (Irish University Press, 1972), by Charles Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Cassell (Cassell, 1894), by G. Holden Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Sir George Newnes, bart. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Hulda Friederichs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Passages of a working life during half a century, with a prelude of early reminiscences. (AMS Press, 1973), by Charles Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• A publisher and his friends : memoir and correspondence of the late John Murray : with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843 (J. Murray, 1891), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Walter Hazell, 1843-1919 (Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1919), by Ralph C. Hazell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Walter Hazell, 1843-1919 (Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1919), by Ralph C. Hazell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Early Oxford Press: A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations, by Falconer Madan (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

• A proposal for the better securing of health. Humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable Houses of Parliament. ([S.l. : s.n., 1689]), by Hugh Chamberlen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, Who Were Ejected or Silenced After the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, Which Took Place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 (2 volumes; London: W. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by Samuel Palmer
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reconstruction of the English church (D. Appleton, 1910), by Roland G. Usher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905), by Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the English church during the Civil Wars and under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660 (Longmans, Green, 1900), by William Arthur Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Ken, D.D. : deprived bishop of Bath and Wells : viewed in connection with public events, and the spirit of the times, political and religious, in which he lived : including some account of the fortunes of Morley, Bishop of Winchester, his first patron and the friend of Izaak Walton ... / by W.L. Bowles. (J. Murray, 1830), by William Lisle Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the English church (1660-1714) (Longmans, Green, 1885), by John H. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• How did they get there?, or, The non-conforming ministers of 1662 : a question for those who would celebrate the bi-centenary of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662 (Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1862), by George Venables (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious pamphlets (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898), by Percy Dearmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nonconformist's memorial : being an account of the ministers, who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration, particularly by the Act of Uniformity, which took place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 : containing a concise view of their lives and characters ... (Printed for W. Harris ..., 1775), by Edmund Calamy and Samuel Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Church of England : from the accession of James II to the rise of the Bengorian controversy in 1717 (Bell and Daldy, 1860), by Thomas Debary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Free Churches of England : from A.D. 1688-A.D. 1851 (A. Miall, 1869), by Herbert S. Skeats (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jesuits loyalty : manifested in three several treatises lately written by them against the oath of allegeance : with a preface, shewing the pernicious consequence of their principles as to civil government : also three other treatises concerning the reasons of the penal laws, viz. I. The execution of justice in England, not for religion, but for treason, II. Important considerations, by the secular priests, III. The Jesuits reasons unreasonable (Printed for R. Royston, bookseller ..., 1677), by John Sergeant, William Watson, William Cecil Burghley, and Edward Stillingfleet (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the English church and of the principal bodies of dissenters with answers to each from the restoration of Charles II to A.D. 1800 (J. Hatchard, 1820), by Johnson Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the English church during the civil wars and under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660. (Longmans, Green and Co., 1900), by William Arthur Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discourse of the state ecclesiasticall of this kingdome, in relation to the civill : considered under three conclusions : with a digression discussing some ordinary exceptions concerning ecclesiasticall officers (Printed by William Turner, and are to be sold by Ed. Forrest, 1634), by Calybute Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Smith, the Se-Baptist, Thomas Helwys and the first Baptist church in England (James Clarke, 1911), by Walter H. Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (A. Constable ;, 1906), by Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissent in England : two lectures (Rivingtons, 1900), by Hensley Henson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Questions propounded to the professors of the chuch-assemblies [sic] of England ([Amsterdam? : s.n., ca. 1608]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Lord Digbies designe to betray Abingdon : carryed on for divers vveeks by an intercourse of letters, which are here published for the satisfaction of all men (Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sugar-loaf at Temple-Bar, 1645), by Richard Browne, George Digby, and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Case of the commoners of the mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axhelme in the county of Lincoln ([London? : s.n., 169-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Full and true relation of the death and slaughter of a man and his son at plough, together with four horses, in the parish of Cookham in the county of Berks, Sept. 2, 1680 slain by the thunder and lightning that then and there happened, as may fully be testified by credible persons whose names are hereunto adjoyned : likewise the same day happened another sad accident near Norwich, eight persons, being struck dead in a church porch by thunder / published for prevention of false reports. (London : Printed for John Harding ..., 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The sad and lamentable cry of oppression and cruelty in the city of Bristol. Relating to the prosecution of certain dissenting-Protestants in some passages most notorious to the grieved inhabitants of the said city. (London : printed for John Alexander, MDCLXXXII. [1682]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A True account of what past at the election of knights of the shire for the county of Bucks correcting several falsities and mistakes in a late pamphlet entituled A letter from a free-holder of Buckinghamshire to a friend in London &c. in another letter from an assured hand, 1679. ([London : s.n., 1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Mr. Rotherham's case at the committee of elections and priviledges, the eighth of December concerning the election of St. Edmunds-bury. ([London : s.n., 1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the inabling of Sir William Brereton, Baronet, one of the members of the House of Commons, speedily to put in execution the ordinances for the sequestration of the estates of papists and delinquents : the fifth and twentieth part, weekly assessement, and all other ordinances of Parliament within the county of Chester, and county and city of Chester : and to take subscriptions for the better supply and maintenance of the forces under his command, for security of the said places and preventing the accesse of the Irish forces into those parts : also allowing unto the said Sir William Brereton the personall estates of all papists and delinquents in and about London and within 20 miles thereof as are not yet sequestred or discovered for the service aforesaid. (Printed for John Wright ..., 1644), by England and Wales and John Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ... (London : [s.n.], 1667), by Evan Price (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Late dreadful and most admired calamity of a parcel of land and many great oaks, and other trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a water that the tops of the highest oaks are not to be seen, together with a great quantity of land and other trees that are daily falling ... neer unto the parish of Bulkley, about nine miles from Chester, it being part of the land of the Lord Cholmley : this strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657. (London : Printed for Tho. Vere and William Gilbertson ..., 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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