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Date	Location	Author	Title	Pedagogical Uses
1559	London	Robert Fabyan Call #: 942 F117 c Call # 942 FII7 n	Fabian’s Chronicles	British Renaissance Text Production Renaissance History Gothic type before transition to Roman type
1623	London	Speed, John Call # QK358 . R42	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 Call #: BV649 .H8 1676	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 Call # PA4037. A2W71775	An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer	18th-Century British Text Production Status of Western Canon Illustration
1795	Boston	Brady, Nicholas and Tate, Nahum Call # BS1440 . B69 1795.	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
1804	London	Dayton Collection Call # 822.33 77B693 g	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 Call # F234. F256	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 Call # PS2777.V4 1839	Velasco	19th-Century American Text Production American Drama
1840	London	Dickens, Charles Call # PR4572 .M3 1840	Master Humphrey’s Clock	19th-Century British Text Production Marketing and Compilations Illustration History
1845	Philadelphia	Janeway, J.J. Call # BS480. J35	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 Call # PS2236 . L273 E44 1846	Elinor Fulton	19th-Century American Text Production Conduct Literature Advertising and Marketing of Books
1849	New York	Smith, Elbert H. Call #: PS2859 .S65 1849	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 Call # PS2071 . A1 1855	Wolfert’s Roost	19th-Century American Text Production Advertising and Marketing Illustration
1855	New York	Pickering, George (pseudonym: George P. Burnham) Call # PS1219 . B45 R3	The Rag-Picker; or Bound and Free	19th-Century American Text Production Representations of Class
1859	New York	Cooke, John Esten Call # PS1382 . H4	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 Call # PS1744. G68 M9 1863	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 Call # PR5572 . 06 1875	Queen Mary, A Drama	19th-Century American Text Production British Texts Circulating in America Advertising and Marketing
1880	London	Gilchrist, Alexander Call # PR4146 . G5	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 Call # PS1257 . F3 1882	Farm Ballads	19th-Century American Text Production Ideology of Country Illustrations
1883	New York	Black, William Call # PR4124 G7 1883	Green Pastures and Piccadilly	19th-Century American Text Production
1883	Boston	Trowbridge, J.T. Call # PS3097 . P46 1883	Phil and His Friends	19th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature Advertising, Pricing, and Marketing
1885	Pittsburgh	Winslow, W.H. Call # PS3340 . W53 C7	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 Call # PS2235 . L7 K5 1886	Kings of Capital and the Knights of Labor	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Economics Class Ideologies
1885	New York	Carleton, Will Call # PS1257 . C4 1885	City Ballads	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Rural/Urban Ideology Marketing, especially of the Canon
1888	New York	Bruce, Wallace Call # PS1146 . B5 O5 1888	Old Homestead Poems	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Literary Appropriations Canonicity Nostalgia
1888	Cincinnati	Adams, Emma H. Call # F851 . A21	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. Call # PS548 . M2 G7	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 Call # PR4606 . B3 1892	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 Call # SB472 . V27 1893	Art Out of-Doors. Hints on Good Taste in Gardening	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Gardening and Environment Gender Epigraphs Advertisements
1895	Boston	Clement, Clara Erskine Call # PR722 . V3	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 Call # PS1805 . M5 E96	Mr. Rabbit at Home	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature Marketing of the Author
1898	Boston / New York	Warner, Charles Dudley Call # PS3152 . M6 1898	My Summer in A Garden	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Country Ideology Illustrations
1899	New York	Holmes, Oliver Wendell Call # PS1956 . E3 1899	The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes	Late 19th-Century American Text Production Text Design American Poetry
1901	New York	Field, Eugene Call # 811 F45412	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 Call # PS1556 . L5 1904	Li’l’ Gal	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Representations of African Americans Illustration
1905	Philadelphia	Gautier, Theophile Call # DK27 . 79 1905	Russia	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Travel Literature Orientalism and the Exotic Illustration
1907	New York/London	Cabell, James Branch PS3505.A153 G3 1907	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 Call # PS3117 . D3 1907	Days Off and Other Digressions	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Marketing
1908	New York/London	Tarkington, Booth and Harry Leon Wilson Call # PS2972 . M3 1908	The Man from Home	Early 20th-Century American Text Production American Drama Production History Photography
1909	New York	Cable, George W. Call # PS1244 . P6	“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 Call # PS1809 . A1 1910	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 Call # PS3302 . R6 1916	The Romance of A Christmas Card	Early 20th-Century American Text Production Children’s Literature Advertising Illustration

Date

Location

Author

Title

Pedagogical Uses

1559

London

Robert Fabyan

Call #: 942 F117 c

Call # 942 FII7 n

Fabian’s Chronicles

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

1623

London

Speed, John

Call # QK358 . R42

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

Call #: BV649 .H8 1676

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

Call # PA4037. A2W71775

An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer

18th-Century British Text Production
Status of Western Canon
Illustration

1795

Boston

Brady, Nicholas and Tate, Nahum

Call # BS1440 . B69 1795.

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

1804

London

Dayton Collection

Call # 822.33 77B693 g

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

Call # F234. F256

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

Call # PS2777.V4 1839

Velasco

19th-Century American Text Production
American Drama

1840

London

Dickens, Charles

Call # PR4572 .M3 1840

Master Humphrey’s Clock

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

1845

Philadelphia

Janeway, J.J.

Call # BS480. J35

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

Call # PS2236 . L273 E44 1846

Elinor Fulton

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

1849

New York

Smith, Elbert H.

Call #: PS2859 .S65 1849

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

Call # PS2071 . A1 1855

Wolfert’s Roost

19th-Century American Text Production
Advertising and Marketing
Illustration

1855

New York

Pickering, George (pseudonym: George P. Burnham)

Call # PS1219 . B45 R3

The Rag-Picker; or Bound and Free

19th-Century American Text Production
Representations of Class

1859

New York

Cooke, John Esten

Call # PS1382 . H4

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

Call # PS1744. G68 M9 1863

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

Call # PR5572 . 06 1875

Queen Mary, A Drama

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

1880

London

Gilchrist, Alexander

Call # PR4146 . G5

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

Call # PS1257 . F3 1882

Farm Ballads

19th-Century American Text Production
Ideology of Country
Illustrations

1883

New York

Black, William

Call # PR4124 G7 1883

Green Pastures and Piccadilly

19th-Century American Text Production

1883

Boston

Trowbridge, J.T.

Call # PS3097 . P46 1883

Phil and His Friends

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

1885

Pittsburgh

Winslow, W.H.

Call # PS3340 . W53 C7

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

Call # PS2235 . L7 K5 1886

Kings of Capital and the Knights of Labor

Late 19th-Century American Text Production
Economics
Class Ideologies

1885

New York

Carleton, Will

Call # PS1257 . C4 1885

City Ballads

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

1888

New York

Bruce, Wallace

Call # PS1146 . B5 O5 1888

Old Homestead Poems

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

1888

Cincinnati

Adams, Emma H.

Call # F851 . A21

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.

Call # PS548 . M2 G7

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

Call # PR4606 . B3 1892

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

Call # SB472 . V27 1893

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

Late 19th-Century American Text Production
Gardening and Environment
Gender
Epigraphs
Advertisements

1895

Boston

Clement, Clara Erskine

Call # PR722 . V3

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

Call # PS1805 . M5 E96

Mr. Rabbit at Home

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

1898

Boston / New York

Warner, Charles Dudley

Call # PS3152 . M6 1898

My Summer in A Garden

Late 19th-Century American Text Production
Country Ideology
Illustrations

1899

New York

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Call # PS1956 . E3 1899

The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

1901

New York

Field, Eugene

Call # 811 F45412

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

Call # PS1556 . L5 1904

Li’l’ Gal

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

1905

Philadelphia

Gautier, Theophile

Call # DK27 . 79 1905

Russia

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

1907

New York/London

Cabell, James Branch

PS3505.A153 G3 1907

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

Call # PS3117 . D3 1907

Days Off and Other Digressions

Early 20th-Century American Text Production
Marketing

1908

New York/London

Tarkington, Booth and Harry Leon Wilson

Call # PS2972 . M3 1908

The Man from Home

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

1909

New York

Cable, George W.

Call # PS1244 . P6

“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

Call # PS1809 . A1 1910

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

Call # PS3302 . R6 1916

The Romance of A Christmas Card

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