The Poets and poetry of Scotland : from the earliest to the present time, comprising characteristic selections from the works of the more noteworthy Scottish poets /

I. From Thomas the Rhymer to Richard Gall, [1219-1776] -- II. From Thomas Campbell to Marquis of Lorne, [1777-1876].

The history of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages, and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Cambrian Plutarch : comprising memoirs of some of the most eminent Welshmen, from the earliest times to the present, including the substance of all previous researches into the literary and personal history of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, Asser Menevensis, Giraldus Cambrensis, David ab Gwilym, Humphrey Llwyd, Dr. John David Rys, Bishop Morgan, and other early Welsh poets and historians.

Mode of access: Internet.

Visits to remarkable places; old halls, battlefields and scenes illustrative of striking passages in history and poetry.

Published as 1st and 2d series, respectively; prefaces dated 1839 and 1841.

A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged ... : being a work necessary not only for classical instruction, but for all those who wish to have a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture and painting /

Plate engraved by P. Fourdrinier.

The British story briefly told : from early times to the present period : with thirty-four engravings representing the sovereigns in their proper costumes, and six engravings on steel, illustrative of the history.

Numbered plates are dated December 1832.

The silk culture in the United States; embracing complete accounts of the latest and most approved modes of hatching, rearing and feeding the silk-worm, managing a cocoonery, reeling, spinning, and manufacturing the silk, &c. ... With brief historical sketches of the silk business, natural history of the silk-worm, the mulberry, &c. comp. from the most approved and reliable works ... To which is added Blydenburgh's Manual of the silk culture; statistics of silk imports, &c., &c.

"The work ... has been prepared ... with the aid of Mr. I. R. Barbour ... we have ... profited by the article on silk in Dr. Ures ... dictionary of arts and sciences, Mr. Bliss's report on silk ... to the legislature of Ohio, Mr. Colman's report to the Massachusetts legislature, &c.; while we have quoted entire The silk manual of ... Mr. Blydenburgh." Advertisement, p. [3]

The works of Robert Burns : with an account of his life, and criticism on his writing ; to which are prefixed some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry by James Currie, M. D. ; with many additional poems and songs and an enlarged and corrected glossary.

Includes index.

Visits to remarkable places,old halls,battle fields,and scenes illustrative of striking passages in history and poetry, chiefly in the counties of Durham and Northumberland. 2d series.

The 1st series dealt with England in general.

The history of England during the middle ages. Comprising the reigns from William the Conqueror to the accession of Henry the Eighth; and also, the history of the literature, poetry, religion and language of England during that period.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of William Shakespeare : the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions : with the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage /

Includes index.

Early history of western Pennsylvania, and of the West, and of western expeditions and campaigns, from MDCCLIV to MDCCCXXXIII.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the early settlement and Indian wars of Western Virginia : embracing an account of the various expeditions in the West, previous to 1795 ; also, biographical sketches /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sketches of Corsica; or, A journal written during a visit to that island, in 1823. With an outline of its history, and specimens of the language and poetry of the people.

Mode of access: Internet.

Visits to remarkable places; old halls, battle fields, and scesnes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry.

Mode of access: Internet.