Books published by Eureka Press

This 4-volume facsimile collection focuses on early minstrelsy material, particularly songs and performance records. Included are songbooks of famous Christy Minstrels, a performance guide for amateur troupes, sheet music and playbills, books that explore minstrelsy history.

This is the first collection of a new Eureka Press series which reprints in facsimile the local town handbooks published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the occasion of the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

This is a complete transcribed edition of Sir Ernest Satow's diaries during his second stay in Japan during the Meiji restoration period. It is an indispensable primary source material for any scholar researching the early modernization of Japan and Anglo-Japanese relationship.

Presents a reprint of one of the successful Victorian encylopedias: the fifth edition published in 1874. This work was translated into Japanese by the Ministry of Education of Meiji government in Japan and was considered as an important source of Western information then in Japan.

A facsimile reprint of the 1800 edition of "The British Tourists", one of the earliest example of pocket-sized travel guides in England. It features the entries covering various areas of the British Isles, including Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It collects texts by some of the highly reputed eighteenth-century authors.

A facsimile reprint of the Victorian weekly for boys from the 1st to 194th issue covering 1879 to 1882. With many illustrations (some in colour) in the original size, it contains a mixture of factual articles about such things as history, science, religion, famous figures and topical social changes affecting the daily lives of girls and women.

A collection of articles that offers a contribution to English studies since the pre-Chaucer period. It also contributes to our understanding of the literary and cultural environments of Britain and Italy, and gives us an illuminating study of what has often been viewed as a gap in the production of major writers and artists.

A collection of Shakespeare's plays. It includes Thomas Bowdler's introductory notes to some of the plays.