Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholarly readers studying the history of book censorship and publishing control in England
- Professionals engaged in bibliography, textual scholarship, and the organization of documentary materials
- University teachers and students interested in "expurgatory catalogue" literature and its methods of compilation
- Researchers who need to trace specific prohibited or expurgated publications
Not a good fit for
- General readers expecting a continuous historical narrative or popular story
- Chinese readers with limited English and little familiarity with bibliographical search methods
- Beginners who want a quick overview of the censorship system without consulting entries
Reading tips
- Begin with the title page and compilation notes to clarify the scope, chronological limits, and entry format.
- Use it as a search tool, consulting it by specific title, author, or year rather than reading it straight through.
- Read it alongside scholarly works on English publishing history or censorship history to supply the historical context behind the entries.
- Take keyword notes while reading so as to relocate and cross-check passages repeatedly in the electronic edition.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
W. H. (William Henry) Hart (Hart, W. H. (William Henry), -1888) was a nineteenth-century bibliographer about whose life very little is publicly documented; his nationality, exact dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot be established, and it is known only that he died in 1888. He is remembered in bibliographical history for Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus, the sole work of his held in this collection. The book belongs to the genre of censorial bibliography, listing English books that were prohibited or required expurgation, and served the book censorship and textual scholarship of its time. Such index-style works are marked by a rigorous format and careful attention to accurate entries and sources, and they remain useful for the study of the circulation of early modern English books, censorship, and bibliography. Hart's work reflects the practical orientation of nineteenth-century scholars who compiled indexes of prohibited books.
