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• Publishers and publishing -- England -- Early works to 1800
• History -- Early works to 1800

• Private presses -- England -- History -- Early works to 1800

• 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)

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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

• 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

• 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)

• 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; US access only)
• 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)

• Proposals for compiling and publishing a book to be intituled Pietas anglicana: or, An historical account of all the works of piety, charity, and other acts of beneficence, done in England since the Reformation, with respect to religion, learning, and provision for all sorts of poor; collected from histories, records, wills, monuments, and other authentic evidence. ([London : s.n., 1690?]), by Philip Stubs (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An advertisement. These following atlas's and treatises, with the maps, charts and sculptures therein contained; with any sort of mathematical-books and instruments, are made and sold by John Seller, [hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at his shop at the Hermitage-Stairs in Wapping, and in Exchange-Alley near the Royal Exchange in London. ([London : s.n., 1678]), by John Seller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposals for the carrying on an actual survey of all the counties in the kingdom of England and principallity of Wales, in order to the compleating a new book in large folio, to be intituled Atlas Anglicanus by John Seller hydrographer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. ([London : s.n., 1679?]), by John Seller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir James Cambels Clarks disaster, by making books, shewing that lying and scandalous pamphlets against the King and Parliament are in great estimation, but bookes of learning and religion little regarded. Exemplified in a compendious letter to Iohn Philpond in Suffolke. (London : [s.n], Printed in the climacterian yeere, 1642), by Edward Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposals for printing by subscription, the second, third and fourth volumes of the French Book of martyrs, or History of the famous Edict of Nantes. Which three volumes with the first already publish'd, contain an account of all the persecutions that have been in France, from the beginning of the Reformation (there) down to the present time, comprehending the reigns of Henry III. Henry IV. Lewis XIII. and Lewis XIV. The whole work faithfully extracted from all the publick and secret memoirs that cou'd possibly be procured, by that learned and judicious divine Mounsieur Bennoit. Printed first in French by the authority of the states of Holland and West-Friezland, and now translated into English. With Her Majesties royal priviledge. ([London] : Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey., [1693]), by John Dunton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King. A proclamation to forbid the importing, buying, selling, or publishing any forraine edition of a booke lately printed at London by His Maiesties command, intituled Mare Clausum. (Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1636), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King. A proclamation touching bookes first printed here, and after reprinted beyond the seas, and imported hither. (Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiesty: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1636), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act against unlicensed and scandalous books and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing. (Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, printers to the Parliament of England, 1649), by England and Wales Parliament, Henry Scobell, John Field, and Edward Husband (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proposals for printing by subscription, Cambden's Britannia, English. Newly translated with large additions. ([London : s.n., 1693?]), by Abel Swall and Timothy Childe (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The merchants daily companion: ([London] : Printed for Thomas Malthus, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Sun in the Poultry,, 1684.) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Decemb. 6. 1708. Advertisement to book-sellers, and others. Whereas there hath been a book lately printed and publish'd, intituled, The neat duties (all discounts and abatements deducted) of all merchandize specify'd in the Book of Rates, begun in the 12th Car. II. with the several variations to this present year 1708. The said book hath, upon examination, been found very erroneous and false ... besides several omissions. This is to give notice, that there is preparing for the press, and will speedily be publish'd at Her Majesties printing-office in Black-Fryers, a book of all the neat duties upon merchandize both inwards and outwards ... and will be sold at a very reasonable price at the place aforesaid, and at most book-sellers ... ([London : H.M. Printing Office, 1708]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement. The history of the bucaniers of America; or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed ... upon the coasts of the West-Indies ... Written by John Esquemeling, and Basil RIngrose ... in this second edition is added the dangerous voyages and bold attempts of Capt. Cook and Cap. Sharp in the South-Sea ... with the effigies of the bucaniers, curiously done in nineteen copper plates. In four parts compleat.. ([London : William Whitwood, and Anthony Feltham, 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [Advertisement] The pleasures of matrimony; intermix'd with variety of merry and delightful stories ... price 1 s. sold by H. Rhodes, at the Star the corner of Bride-lane in Fleetstreet ... ([London : H. Rhodes?, ca. 1695]), by Henry Rhodes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• There is newly published, the four following usefull and necessary books. The queens closet opened ... The exact dealer refined ... the third edition, enlarged. ... The young secretary's guide: or, A speedy help to learning. In two parts. ... The strange and prodigious religions, customs, and manners, of sundry nations ... the second edition. All four printed for Henry Rhodes ... ([London : H. Rhodes, ca. 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Scripture observations. (London : printed by M.S. for H. Crips, at his shop in Popes-head Alley next Lombard Street, 1662), by Caleb Trenchfield (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Recueil d'antiquités egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques, romaines et gauloises (Chez Duchesne ..., 1752), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, Charles Saillant, Nicolas Desaint, and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquite s, mythologie, diplomatique des chartres et chronologie (Chez Panckoucke, libraire, ho tel de Thou, rue des Poitevins ;, 1786), by Henri Agasse, Cle ment Plomteux, Charles Joseph Panckoucke, Jacques Bouillard, Ange lique Mongez, and Mongez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orbis antiqui monumentis suis illustrati primae lineae (Typis Lorenzii et Schuleri ..., 1790), by Jer. Jac. Oberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geöfnete Antiqvitäten-Zimmer (Bey Benjamin Schillern, Buchhändlern, 1702), by Friedrich Christian Feustking and Benjamin Schiller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Second booke of battailes. (At London : Printed [by Thomas East] for Gabriell Cavvood, 1587), by John Polemon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• All the famous battels that haue bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well by sea as lande set foorth at large, liuely described, beautified, and enriched with sundry eloquent orations, and the declaratio[n]s of the causes, with the fruites of them. Collected out of sundry good authors, whose names are expressed in the next page. (Imprinted at London : By Henrye Bynneman, & Francis Coldock, [1578]), by John Polemon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Empresa, victorias y desgracias de el principe Carlos Eduardo Stuard, pretendiente de Inglaterra, residente en Roma (en la imprenta del Diario, 1791), by Victor Amadeo Maria and Miguel Canal y Gabuti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen tertium. (ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco, John Watts, Jacob Tonson, Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares), and biblioteca com (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen quartum. (ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco, John Watts, Jacob Tonson, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen quintum. (ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1724), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco, John Watts, Jacob Tonson, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patin, Guy : tiré de ses conversations, de son Cabinet, de ses Lettres, & de ses autres Ouvrages, avec son portrait historique. (chez Henry Schelten ..., 1709), by Guy Patin and Hendrick Schelte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium, doctrina et eruditione praestantium (T. de Bry], 1597), by Jean Jacques Boissard, Adam Lonicer, and Theodor de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy state. (Printed by R.D. for John Williams ..., 1648), by Thomas Fuller, John Williams, and Roger Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy state (Printed by R.D.[aniel] for John Williams, 1652), by Thomas Fuller, John Williams, and Roger Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogia doctorum virorum ab avorum memoria publicatis ingenii monumentis illustrium (Apud Joan. Bellerum, 1557), by Paolo Giovio and Johannes Latomus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome (Imprinted at London : [By H. Middleton] for Henrie Cockyn, dwelling in Fletestreate at the signe of the Elephant, a litle aboue the Conduit, Anno. 1577), by John Bishop (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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