Author:William John Thoms

William Thoms
(1803–1885)

William Thoms

Works

• "Joe Miller, and the Jesters of All Climes and Times" in Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. IV, No. XXII, October 1838 (start transcription)
• "Some Observations upon the "Danse Macabre," or Dance of Death" in Archaeological Journal, 2 (1846), pp. 151–155
• "English Players in Germany, 1600" in Littell's Living Age, 152 (1970)
• Early English prose romances (1827, revised 1858)
  • Vol. I (Robert the Deuyll, Thomas A Reading, Frier Bacon, Frier Rush) (transcription project)
  • Vol. II (Virgilius, Robin Hood, George A Green, Tom A Lincoln) (transcription project)
  • Vol. III (Helyas, Doctor Faustus) (transcription project)
• Three notelets on Shakespeare
• Anecdotes and traditions

As translator

• The Primeval Antiquities of Denmark (1849) by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

As editor

• The Original, a weekly periodical (3 March – 28 July 1832) (external scan)
• Lays and Legends of Various Nations (March–September 1834) (transcription project)

Works about Thoms

• "Thoms, William John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Thoms, William John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)