Contents - BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD - INDEX TO CHAPTERS - INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHIES - INDEX TO AUTHORS

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume XIV. The Victorian Age, Part Two.

XV. Changes in the Language since Shakespeare’s Time

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Emerson, O. F. The History of the English Language. New York and London, 1894.

Greenough, J. B. and Kittredge, G. L. Words and their Ways in English Speech. 1902.

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PERIODICALS

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SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

POPULAR SERIES

Bohn, Henry George (1796–1884). Bohn’s Standard library. 1846, etc. Bohn’s Extra volumes. 1846, etc. Bohn’s Antiquarian library. 1847, etc. Bohn’s Scientific library. 1847, etc. Bohn’s Classical library 1848, etc. Bohn’s Illustrated library. 1849, etc. Bohn’s Ecclesiastical library. 1851, etc. Bohn’s Philological library. 1852, etc. Bohn’s British Classics. 1853, etc. Bohn’s French memoirs. 1865, etc. Bohn’s Historical library. 1857, etc. Bohn’s Collegiate series. 1859, etc. Bohn’s Reference library. 1875, etc. Bohn’s Artists’ library. 1877, etc. Bohn’s Novelists’ library. 1876 [1875]. Bohn’s Economic library. 1882, etc.

For Bohn’s own contributions to the above series and his other writings, see D. of N. B.

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See, also, ante, bibliography to Chap. III.

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Knight, Charles (1791–1873). Knight’s Library of Entertaining Knowledge. 1829, etc. [This series of popular treatises, reprints, etc., was begun in 1829, simultaneously with Murray’s The Family library.] The Pictorial History of England; being a history of the people, as well as a history of the kingdom [to the accession of George III]. By Craik, G. L. and MacFarlane, C., assisted by other contributors. 4 vols. 1837–41. Knight’s Miscellanies.7 vols. 1840–2. Knight’s Store of Knowledge for all readers: being a collection of treatises, in various departments of knowledge. By several authors. [1841.] London. Ed. K., C. 6 vols. 1841–4. Revised by Walford, E. [1875–7.] Knight’s library for the Times. 6 vols. 1844. Half-hours with the Best Authors, collected and arranged, with short biographical and critical notices, by K., C. Illustrated with portraits. 4 vols. [1847–8.] New edn. 4 vols. 1866. Studies and Illustrations of the Writings of Shakespeare, and of his life and times. 3 vols. 1850. Pictorial Half-hours. Ed. K., C. [1850–1.] Knight’s Cyclopaedia of the Industry of all Nations, 1851. [1851.] Knight’s Cyclopaedia of London, 1851. [1851.] Knight’s Excursion Companion—Excursions from London. 20 nos. 1851. Knight’s Pocket Cyclopaedia of Practical and Entertaining Knowledge. (Novelties, inventions, and curiosities in arts and manufactures.) [1853]. The English Cyclopaedia. A new dictionary of universal knowledge. Conducted by K., C. [assisted by Ramsay, A., and Thorne, J.]. 22 vols. and Synoptical Index. 1854–70. The Old Printer and the Modern Press. 1854. Once upon a time. [Miscellaneous Essays.] 2 vols. 1854. New and enlarged edn. 1865. Knowledge is Power: a view of the productive forces of Modern Society, and the results of labour, capital and skill. 1855. Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of animated nature; and companion for the Zoological Gardens.… Four thousand wood engravings. 2 vols. [1856–8.] The Popular History of England. 8 vols. 1856–62. Half Hours of English History selected and illustrated by K., C. Pts. 1–9. [1857.] Knight’s Pictorial Gallery of Arts. 2 vols. [1858–60.] Shadows of the Old Booksellers. 1865. The new Universal library. 1908. Half-hours with the best Letter-writers and Autobiographers. Forming a collection of memoirs and anecdotes of eminent persons. 1867. Second series. 1868. Also edited and produced various edns. of Shakespeare; and published The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 27 vols., 1833–43, and supplements (2 vols., 1845–6, one vol., 1848). Periodicals: The Penny Magazine [ed. K., C., continued as] Knight’s Penny Magazine. 1832, etc. Knight’s Quarterly Magazine. 3 vols. 1823–4.

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Murray, John (1778–1843), and Murray, John (1818–1892). The Family library. 1829, etc. [A series of books by Lockhart, Milman, Palgrave, Scott, Southey, and others. The first volume was The History of Napoleon Buonaparte, by Lockhart, condensed from the life by Scott, and illustrated by George Cruikshank. It met with great success and reached several edns. See, Smiles, Samuel. A Publisher and his friends (pp. 300 ff.). 1911.] Hand-Book for Travellers in France. 1843. [Forming one of a large series of hand-books to different countries.] Handbook to the Cathedrals of England. Southern [and Eastern] division. 3 vols. 1861, 62. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England. Western [Northern, Southern and Eastern] division. 6 vols. 1864–81. [The majority were compiled by King, Richard J.]

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