User:Keith Edkins
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Have been a Project Gutenberg distributed proofreader since October 2004 and have post-processed a variety of interesting works.[1]. I have copied the following to Wikisource (before September 2013 this was done under the now disused name User:Laverock):
18th century and earlier
[edit]- On the Magnet by William Gilbert (1600, tr. 1900)
- The Compleat Surgeon by M. le Clerc (1696)
- A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage by Jeremy Collier (1698)
- Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton (1733)
- Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
- Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin (1796)
Early 19th century
[edit]- Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
- First Series (1820-23) - Second Series (1829-33)
- Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Vegetables by William Bingley (1825)
- Illustrations of Exotic Entomology by Dru Drury, edited by John Westwood (1837)
- A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby II (1842)
- The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood by Ramon Llull, tr. Sir Gilbert Hay (edition 1847)
Late 19th century
[edit]- The English Housekeeper by Anne Cobbett (1851)
- The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Peter Berlyn and Charles Fowler (1851)
- A Graduated English-Welsh Spelling-Book by John Lewis (1857)
- Illustrated Index of British Shells by George Brettingham Sowerby II (1859)
- British Butterflies by William S. Coleman (1860)
- History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating by M. Digby Wyatt (1861)
- The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1868)
- On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
- A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1872)
- The Geographical Distribution of Animals by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
- The Scientific Basis of National Progress by George Gore (1882)
- Explanatory notes of a pack of Cavalier playing cards, temp. Charles II. by Edmund Goldsmid (1886)
- The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman by William Langland, ed. Thomas Wright (1887)
- Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876 by Ernst Haeckel (1887)
- Essays upon some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley (1892)
- An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology by George Vernon Hudson (1892)
- Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times by J. Henry Middleton (1892)
- Descriptive Zoopraxography by Eadweard Muybridge (1893)
- A Hand-book to the Primates by Henry Ogg Forbes (1894)
- The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Walter William Skeat Editor, 1894-7)
- Vol. I - Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems
- Vol. II - Boethius; Troilus
- Vol. III - House of Fame; Legend of Good Women; Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Vol. IV - The Canterbury Tales: Text
- Vol. V - Notes to the Canterbury Tales
- Vol. VI - General Introduction to the Edition, Glossary, and Indexes
- Chaucerian and Other Pieces - supplement to The Complete Works
- Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace (1895)
- The Flags of the World by Frederick Edward Hulme (n.d., ca. 1896)
- New Zealand Moths and Butterflies by George Vernon Hudson (1898)
- The Principles of Biology (Volume I) by Herbert Spencer (1898)
20th century
[edit]- The Cambridge Natural History, Vol. X.—Mammalia by Frank Evers Beddard (1902)
- Esperanta Sintakso by Paul Fruictier (1903 - Vikifontaro)
- Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg, (1904)
- Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Förstemann (1906)
- Extinct Birds by Walter Rothschild (1907)
- The Moths of the British Isles by Richard South—First Series (1907) and Second Series (1909)
- The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream' by Frank Sidgwick (1908)
- Makbeto by William Shakespeare, Esperanto translation by Daniel Lambert (1908 - Vikifontaro)
- The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908
- Maps of Old London by Geraldine Edith Mitton (ed.) (1908)
- Hoyle's Games Modernized edited by Prof. Louis Hoffmann and Ernest Bergholt (1909)
- A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909)
- Measuring Tools - Machinery's Reference Series #21 (1910)
- Wood Carvings in English Churches—II. Stalls, Thrones & Chairs by Francis Bond (1910)
- English as we speak it in Ireland by Patrick Weston Joyce (1910)
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica—Austria, Lower to Bassoon and Bréquigny to Calgary
- A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England by Edwin A. Pratt (1912)
- A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease (1913)
- The Right To Ignore The State by Herbert Spencer (1913)
- Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics by Max Planck (1915)
- An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1915)
- Mimicry in Butterflies by Reginald Crundall Punnett (1915)
- A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1916)
- The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity by Charles S. Boyer (1916)
- The Fight Against Lynching, report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1919)
- Naakt Model door Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (1917)
- Esperanta Sintakso de Paŭlo Fruictier (1903)
- Makbeto de William Shakespeare, tradukita de Daniel Henry Lambert (1908)
Works in Portuguese
[edit]- Cartilha Maternal por João de Deus (1876)
- Historias de Reis e Principes por Alberto Pimentel (1890)
- Öfversigt af Nordiska Mytologien av Daniel Anton Sundén (1884)
- Genom Canada av Paul Petter Waldenström (1904)