Author:William Edward Armytage Axon

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William Edward Armytage Axon (1846–1913)

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British librarian and antiquary, journalist for the Manchester Guardian.

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "W. E. A. A."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. E. A. A."

Works

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

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)