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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III

James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude’s third volume of History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth…

Cover of Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

Great Britain. Board of Trade

The work is a formal report of the British Board of Trade, presented in 1772 to the Crown on a petition…

Cover of Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native.

Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native.

Dinabandhu Mitra

Nil Darpan is a Bengali drama translated into English by Dinabandhu Mitra, offering a stage‑focused critique…

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII

James Anthony Froude

The work is a scholarly narrative by James Anthony Froude that treats the divorce of Catherine of Aragon as a…

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One Irish Summer

William Eleroy Curtis

One Irish Summer is a travelogue that blends personal observation with a broad survey of Irish geography,…

Cover of The clipper ship era an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869

The clipper ship era an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869

Arthur H. Clark

Arthur H. Clark’s work is a scholarly survey of the clipper‑ship age, spanning 1843‑1869, when the race for…

Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research

Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research

Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

The work is a scholarly biography of Richard III that sets out to reassess the Tudor‑era vilification of the…

Cover of Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History

Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History

Joseph Clayton

Leaders of the People is a scholarly collection of biographical sketches that traces the evolution of English…

Cover of The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Past Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, Volume III is a scholarly edition of a primary source collection,…

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Thomas Potts’s Discovery of Witches is a seventeenth‑century pamphlet that treats the witch‑trials of…

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The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting

W. Roberts

The work is a scholarly survey of book‑collecting in London, first published in 1895 by the bibliographer…

Vanishing England

Vanishing England

P. H. Ditchfield

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 5 The Reformation in England

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 5 The Reformation in England

J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

The work is the fifth volume of Merle d’Aubigné’s sweeping “History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth…

Cover of The British battle fleet, Vol. 1 (of 2): Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

The British battle fleet, Vol. 1 (of 2): Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

Fred T. Jane

The work is a scholarly survey of the British battle fleet from its myth‑laden origins to the modern…

Cover of The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.

David Hume

David Hume’s The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.

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Westminster

Besant, Walter; Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith); Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.

The book is a detailed topographical and historical survey of Westminster, the central district of London…

Cover of The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the South and West Coasts

The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the South and West Coasts

Various

The work is a sweeping geographical and cultural survey of Britain’s waterways, arranged by region and river.

Cover of Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Daniel Hack Tuke

The work is a concise survey of the development of care for the mentally ill across the British Isles,…

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

J. J. Jusserand

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare is a scholarly survey that traces the emergence of English prose…

English Book Collectors

English Book Collectors

William Younger Fletcher

William Younger Fletcher’s English Book Collectors is a compact reference work that gathers scattered…

Chaucer and His England

Chaucer and His England

G. G. Coulton

The work is a scholarly survey that intertwines biographical sketch, social history, and literary commentary…

Cover of The Oxford Methodists: Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others

The Oxford Methodists: Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others

L. Tyerman

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical collection by L.

The History of Oswestry Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; The Topography of the Borough; And Its Ecclesiastical and Civic History; With Notices of Botany, Geology, Statistics, Angling, and Biography: To Which Are Added Sketches of the Environs

The History of Oswestry Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; The Topography of the Borough; And Its Ecclesiastical and Civic History; With Notices of Botany, Geology, Statistics, Angling, and Biography: To Which Are Added Sketches of the Environs

William Cathrall

William Cathrall’s “The History of Oswestry” is a sprawling antiquarian survey that stitches together the…

A Comprehensive History of Norwich

A Comprehensive History of Norwich

A. D. Bayne

A. D. Bayne’s A Comprehensive History of Norwich is a scholarly survey that sets out, from the outset, its…

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