Distributed Proof-reading Projects I have Post-processed

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The Tragedies of Euripides (c. 420 BC). Ed. Theodore A. Buckley (1892)

The Academica of M. Tullius Cicero (45 BC). Ed. James S. Reid

The Cato Maior De Senectute of M. Tullius Cicero (c. 44 BC). Ed. James S. Reid

S. Aurelii Augustini Confessiones (c. 400, Ed. Oxon. 1838).

The Homilies of Ælfric (c. 1000, Tr. Benjamin Thorpe, 1844).
        The same with Anglo-Saxon passages in Junius Font. / The same with Anglo-Saxon passages in Beowulf1 Font.

Sir Gawayne and The Green Knight (c. 1320). Ed. Richard Morris

The Boke of Noblesse: Addressed to King Edward the Fourth on his Invasion of France in 1475.

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer IV: The Canterbury Tales : Text. (c. 1385). Ed. Rev. Walter W. Skeat (1900).

One Dialogue, or Colluquye of Erasmus (1566), by Desiderius Erasmus

The Way To Geometry, by Peter Ramus (1569). Trans. by William Bedwell (1636).

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I (1590). Ed. George A. Wauchope

On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth (1600), by William Gilbert

Grammar of the Japanese Language, by Diego Collado (1632). Ed. and Trans. by Richard L. Spear

The Curtezan unmasked, by a Spiritual Physician (1664). (Special editition with long ſ)

Experiments and Considerations touching Colours, by Robert Boyle (1664).

Philosophical Transactions, Vol. I. (1665).

Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, made by Magnifying Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (1665).

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton (1686). HTML PDF

The Compleat Surgeon, by M. Le Clerc (1696). (Special editition with long ſ)

The London-Bawd: With her Character and Life: Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women (1705).

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, by Sir Isaac Newton (1728).

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John, by Sir Isaac Newton (1733).

A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy, by James Elphinston (1795).

Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life; by Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. (1796). Volume I. Volume II.

A New System, or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology, by Jacob Bryant (1807). Volume I. Volume II.

The new Conspiracy against the Jesuits detected and exposed, by Robert C. Dallas. (1815).

Zoological Illustrations, by William Swainson, F.R.S., F.L.S. (1820-1). Volume I. Volume II. Volume III.

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, Between the Years 1826 and 1836, ed. by Robert Fitz-Roy. Volume I. (1839). (work in progress)

The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism, upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries, by Thomas William Allies, M. A. (1846).

Dissertatiunculae Quaedam Critico-Theologicae by John Henry Newman (1847).

The Right to ignore the State, by herbert Spencer (1850, reprint 1913).

The English Language, by Robert Gordon Latham, M.D., F.R.S. (1850).

Epidemics examined and explained, by John Grove, M.R.C.S.L. (1850).

Notes and Queries, Various issues from 1850-4.

Godey's Lady's Book, January 1851.

Mysticism and its Results, by John Delafield (1857).

On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. (Second Edition: 1860).

A Handbook of the English Language, by Robert Gordon Latham, M.D., F.R.S. (1864).

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. (1868). Volume I. Volume II.

On the Genesis of Species, by St. George Mivart, F.R.S. (1871).

A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene, by Joseph C. Hutchison. (1872).

A Budget of Paradoxes, by Augustus De Morgan (1872).Volume I. Volume II.

The Ship of Fools translated by Alexander Barclay, edited T. H. Jamieson. (1873)

Alaska by Jón Ólafsson. (1875) (In Icelandic.)

The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional, by Father Chiniquy (1875).

A Candid Examination of Theism, by "Physicus" (George John Romanes) (1878).

New Word-Analysis: or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words, by William Swinton (1879).

The Faith of Islam, by The Rev. Edward Sell (1880).

The Theories of Darwin and their Relation to Philosophy, Religion and Morality, by Rudolf Schmid (1882).

The Scientific Basis of National Progress, including that of Morality, by George Gore. LL.D., F.R.S.(1882).

Object Lessons on the Human Body, by Sarah F. Buckelew and Margaret W. Lewis (1884).

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, etc., by John Casey (1885). (PDF)

British Butterflies, by William S. Coleman (1885).

La Géométrie de René Descartes, Ed. A. Hermann (1886). (PDF)

Proserpina. Studies of Wayside Flowers, by John Ruskin (1888). Volume I. Volume II.

Die hauptsächlichsten Theorien der Geometrie von Dr. Gino Loria, übertragen von Fritz Schütte.(1888).

Essays upon some Controverted Questions, by Thomas Huxley, F.R.S.(1892).

Elements of Gaelic Grammar, by Alexander Stewart (1892).

Searchlights on Health - Light on Dark Corners, by Prof. B. G. Jefferis, M.D., Ph.D., and J. L. Nichols, A.M. (1894).

The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens (1894).

The Carmina of C. Valerius Catullus, translated by Sir Richard Burton & Leonard C. Smithers (1894).

Island Life, by Alfred Russel Wallace (Second Edition, Second Impression 1895).

New Latin Grammar, by Prof. Charles E. Bennett (1895).

The Cathedral Church Of Lincoln, by A. F. Kendrick, B.A. (1898).

Essays on the Theory of Numbers, by Richard Dedekind (1901). (PDF)

The Cambridge Natural History, Volume X: Mammalia, by F. Beddard. (1902). (work in progress)

Lace: Its Origin and History, by Samuel L. Goldenberg. (1904).

An Anglo-Saxon Primer with Grammar, Notes, and Glossary, by Henry Sweet. (1905).

On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation, by August Weismann, tr. Thomas McCormack (1906).

Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants, by Edward Saunders (1907?).

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream', compiled By Frank Sidgwick (1908).

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language. (1908). (A-D) | (E-M) | (N-R) | (S-Z)

The Phase Rule and Its Applications, by Alexander Findlay. (1908).

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume I., by James Anthony Froude (1909).

The Elements of Non-Euclidean Geometry, by Julian Lowell Coolidge Ph.D. (1909) (PDF)

Hoyle's Games Modernized (1909) by Prof. Louis Hoffmann.

English as we speak it in Ireland, by Patrick Weston Joyce. (1910).

Spinning Tops, by Prof. John Perry. (1910).

Encyclopedia Britannica, parts (1911).

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, by Franz Cumont (1911).

The Rise of the Democracy, by Joseph Clayton (1911).

Some principles of maritime strategy, by Sir Julian Stratford Corbett (1911).

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, by David E. Smith & Louis C. Karpinski (1911).

Mendelism, by Prof. Reginald Punnett (1911).

History of Modern Philosophy, by Alfred William Benn. (1912).

The Eugenic Marriage, by W. Grant Hague, M.D. Vol. I. (1913).

A Short History of English Liberalism, by Walter Lyon Blease. (1913).

The Mechanism of Life, by Dr. Stéphane Leduc, tr. W. Deane Butcher (1914).

Diophantine Analysis, by Robert D. Carmichael (1915). (PDF)

A Critique of the Theory of Evolution, by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1916).

Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila, by T. H. Morgan and C. B. Bridges. (1916).

Abbreviations and Signs, by Frederick W. Hamilton LL.D. (1918).

Wireless transmission of photographs, by Marcus J. Martin (1919).

Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements, by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater (1919).

Optical Projection, by Lewis Wright, updated by Russell S. Wright. 5th Ed. (1920).

The Cathedral Church Of Exeter, by Percy Addleshaw, B.A. (1921).

Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia, by Isaac G. Briggs, A.R.S.I. (1921).

Chess Fundamentals, by José Capablanca (1921).

Letters and Lettering, by Frank Chouteau Brown. (1921).

Theory of Silk Weaving, by Arnold Wolfensberger (1921).

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, by R. W. Chambers (1921).

The New Gresham Encyclopedia(1922). A to Amide | Amiel to Atrauli | Atrebates to Bedlis
Deposition to Eberswalde | Ebert to Estremadura | Estremoz to Felspar

Heathen Mythology (n.d.).


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