Date

Location

Author

Title

Pedagogical Uses

1559

London

 

Fabian’s Chronicles



  • British Renaissance Text Production
  • Renaissance History
  • Gothic type before transition to Roman type

1623

London

Speed, John

The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons,Danes, and Normans

  • Late British Renaissance Text Production
  • Renaissance History

1676

London

Hooker, Richard

The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, compleated out of his own Manuscripts with several other Treatises by the Same Author, and an Account of his Life and Death

  • 17th-century British Text Production
  • British Theology
  • Dedications
  • Biography
  • Reprint Culture

1715

London

Pope, Alexander

The Iliad of Homer translated by Mr. Pope

  • 18th-Century British Text Production
  • Classical Works in Translation
  • Canonicity
  • Publication through Subscription
  • Marketing

1755

London

Johnson, Samuel

Johnson’s Dictionary

  • 18th-Century British Text Production
  • History of Dictionaries and Language
  • Canonicity

1775

London

Wood, Robert

An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer

  • 18th-Century British Text Production
  • Status of Western Canon
  • Illustration
See Stewart Plein's Notes

1795

Boston

Brady, Nicholas and Tate, Nahum

A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

  • 18th-Century American Text Production
  • Religious Culture
  • British Texts Circulating in America
See Stewart Plein's Notes

1804

London

 

Boydell’s Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

  • 19th-Century British Text Production
  • Canonicity of Shakespeare
  • Marketing of Illustrations and Engravings

1839

New York

Anonymous

Six Weeks in Fauquier. Being the Substance of a Series of Familiar Letters

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Vacation/Travel Literature

1839

New York

Sargent, Epes

Velasco

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • American Drama

1840

London

Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock

  • 19th-Century British Text Production
  • Marketing and Compilations
  • Illustration History

1845

Philadelphia

Janeway, J.J.

The Internal Evidence of the Holy Bible or the Bible Proved from its Own Pages to be Divine Revelation

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Religious Culture
  • Book as Gift

1846

Philadelphia

Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer

Elinor Fulton

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Conduct Literature
  • Advertising and Marketing of Books

1849

New York

Smith, Elbert H.

Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak; or Black Hawk, and Scenes in the West. A National Poem in Six Cantos

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Representations of Native Americans
  • Development of American Historical Narrative
  • Nationalism
  • Poetry

1851

Philadelphia /

Wheeling

De Hass, Wills

History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Representations of Native Americans
  • Development of American Historical Narrative
  • Illustration

1855

New York

Irving , Washington

Wolfert’s Roost

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Illustration

1855

New York

Pickering, George (pseudonym: George P. Burnham)

The Rag-Picker; or Bound and Free

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Representations of Class

1859

New York

Cooke, John Esten

Henry St. John, Gentleman of Flower of Hundreds in the County of Prince George, Virginia. A Tale of 1774-1775

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Nostalgia
  • Uses of History in Fiction
  • Marketing

1859

London

Rickard, William

The Miner’s Manual of Arithmetic and Surveying

  • 19th-Century British Text Production
  • Mining and Engineering
  • Maps
  • Publication through Subscription

1863

New York

Kirke, Edmund

My Southern Friends

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Civil War Culture
  • Marketing, Pricing and Advertising

1870

New Haven

Benedict, Henry H.

The Coal Dealer’s Ready Reckoner

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Mining; Advertising

 

1875

Boston

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Queen Mary, A Drama

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • British Texts Circulating in America
  • Advertising and Marketing

1880

London

Gilchrist, Alexander

Life of William Blake with Selections from his poems and other writings

  • 19-Century British Text Production
  • Canon Formation
  • Illustration
  • Editions

1882

New York

Carleton, Will

Farm Ballads

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Ideology of Country
  • Illustrations

1883

New York

Black, William

Green Pastures and Piccadilly

  • 19th-Century American Text Production

1883

Boston

Trowbridge, J.T.

Phil and His Friends

  • 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Children’s Literature
  • Advertising, Pricing, and Marketing

1885

Pittsburgh

Winslow, W.H.

Cruising and Blockading. A Naval Story of the Late War

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • History and Literature

 

1885

New York

Leavitt, John McDowell

Kings of Capital and the Knights of Labor

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Economics
  • Class Ideologies

 

1885

New York

Carleton, Will

City Ballads

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Rural/Urban Ideology
  • Marketing, especially of the Canon

1888

New York

Bruce, Wallace

Old Homestead Poems

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Literary Appropriations
  • Canonicity
  • Nostalgia

 

1888

Cincinnati

Adams, Emma H.

To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, with Sketches in Arizona, New Mexico, and British Columbia

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Travel Literature
  • Constructions of the American West

1888

Portland , ME

Griffith, George B

The Poets of Maine. A Collection of Specimen Poems from over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine Tree State with Biographical Sketches

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Canon Formation

1892

London

Dobson, Austin

The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century

  • 19th-Century British Text Production
  • Representations of the British 18th Century
  • Canonicity
  • Advertising
  • Illustration

1893

New York

Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schyler

Art Out of-Doors. Hints on Good Taste in Gardening

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Gardening and Environment
  • Gender
  • Epigraphs
  • Advertisements
See Stewart Plein's Notes

1895

Boston

Clement, Clara Erskine

Constantinople : The City of the Sultans

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Travel Literature
  • Orientalism and the Exotic
  • Illustrations

1896

Boston / New York

Harris, Joel Chandler

Mr. Rabbit at Home

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Children’s Literature
  • Marketing of the Author

1898

Boston / New York

Warner, Charles Dudley

My Summer in A Garden

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Country Ideology
  • Illustrations

1899

New York

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Late 19th-Century American Text Production
  • Text Design
  • American Poetry

 

1901

New York

Field, Eugene

A Little Book of Tribune Verse. A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • American Poetry
  • Advertising and Marketing

1904

New York

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Li’l’ Gal

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Representations of African Americans
  • Illustration

1905

Philadelphia

Gautier, Theophile

Russia

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Travel Literature
  • Orientalism and the Exotic
  • Illustration

1907

New York/London

Cabell, James Branch

Gallantry: An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Representations of the British 18th Century
  • Nostalgia
  • Magazine Publication
  • Illustration

1907

New York

Van Dyke, Henry

Days Off and Other Digressions

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Marketing

1908

New York/London

Tarkington, Booth and Harry Leon Wilson

The Man from Home

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • American Drama
  • Production History
  • Photography

1909

New York

Cable, George W.

“Posson Jone” and Pere Raphael with a New Word Setting Forth How and Why the Two Tales are One

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Illustration

1910

Boston

Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus and the Little Boy

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Children’s Literature
  • representations of African Americans
  • Illustration

1916

Boston / New York

Wiggin, Kate Douglas

The Romance of A Christmas Card

  • Early 20th-Century American Text Production
  • Children’s Literature
  • Advertising
  • Illustration
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