Author:William Edward Armytage Axon

William Edward Armytage Axon
(1846–1913)

William Edward Armytage Axon

Works

• Dr. Rondeau's Revenge, and Other Lancashire Sketches, 1867 (external scan)
• The literature of the Lancashire dialect, 1870 (external scan)
• Folk songs and folk-speech of Lancashire, 1871 (external scan)
• The mechanic's friend, a collection of receipts and practical suggestions, 1875 (external scan)
• A list of Lancashire authors, 1876 (external scan)
• Handbook of the public libraries of Manchester and Salford, 1877 (external scan)
• John Ruskin; a bibliographical biography (1879) (external scan)
• The literary history of Parnell's 'Hermit', 1881 short work (external scan)
• Lancashire gleanings (1883) (external scan)
• English Dialect Words of the Eighteen Century, ed 1883 (external scan)
• The barber's shop, 1883 (external scan)
• Caxton's Game and playe of the chesse, 1474, ed 1883 (external scan)
• A vindication of natural diet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed 1884 (external scan)
• Cheshire gleanings (1884) (external scan)
• The Annals of Manchester: A Chronological Record from the Earliest Times to the End of 1885 (external scan)
• Stray chapters in literature, folk-lore, and archaeology (1888) (external scan)
• Essays in literature and ethics. Ed 1889 (external scan)
• Thomas Taylor, the Platonist (1890) (external scan)
• Shelley's vegetarianism (1891) (external scan)
• Bygone Sussex (1897) (external scan)
• The Ancoats skylark, and other verses. 1894 (external scan)
• Echoes of old Lancashire (1899) (external scan)
• The frugal life: a paradox by Ortensio Landi, ca. 1512-ca. 1553; ed 1899 short work (external scan)
• Ortensio Lando, a humorist of the renaissance (1899) (external scan)
• Echoes of old Lancashire, 1899 (external scan)
• The Story of Belfagor in Literature and Folk-lore, 1902 (external scan)
• Cobden as a Citizen (1907) (external scan)
• The Thomas Greenwood Library for Librarians at Manchester, 1907 short work (external scan)
• The thorny path of literature by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed 1917 (external scan)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Physiological Position of Tobacco" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)

Edited works

• Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, 1631-1659 edited by John Eglington Bailey. Completed by William E. A. Axon (1891) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Contributions to the DNB

• Ainsworth, Henry
• Ainsworth, William Harrison
• Angier, John
• Arden, Richard Pepper
• Arderne, James
• Ashton, Hugh
• Ashton, John de (d.1428)
• Ashton, John de (fl.1370)
• Ashton, Ralph de
• Ashton, Robert de
• Ashton, Thomas de (fl.1346)
• Ashworth, Henry (1794-1880)
• Ashworth, John
• Assheton, William
• Aston, Thomas
• Atherton, John
• Ball, Hannah
• Banks, George Linnæus
• Barmby, John Goodwyn
• Barritt, Thomas
• Baume, Pierre Henri Joseph
• Bellers, Fettiplace
• Bellot, Thomas
• Bennis, George Geary
• Besse, Joseph
• Billington, William
• Blundell, Henry
• Blythe, John Dean
• Bold, Henry
• Boruwlaski, Joseph
• Bowers, George Hull
• Bowes, Mary Eleanor
• Bradberry, David
• Brandwood, James
• Brettargh, Katharine
• Brittain, Thomas
• Brooke, Henry (1694-1757)
• Brookes, Joshua (1754-1821)
• Brotherton, Edward
• Brotherton, Joseph
• Bruen, John
• Brunton, Mary
• Buchanan, Robert (1813-1866)
• Burton, Charles (1793-1866)
• Burton, Robert (1632?-1725?)
• Butterworth, Edwin
• Butterworth, James
• Calveley, Hugh
• Calvert, Charles (1785-1852)
• Calvert, Thomas (1775-1840)
• Canne, John
• Castillo, John
• Caw, John Young
• Clayton, John (1754-1843)
• Cole, Thomas (1627?-1697)
• Crestadoro, Andrea

Contributions to EB1911

• "Manchester," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Roscoe, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Salford," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Axon

• "Obituary: Dr. William Edward Armytage Axon," in The Times (1913)