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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Cant- Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves (London: J. Duncombe, 1848), illust. by George Cruikshank
- Pachuco: An American-Spanish Argot and Its Social Functions in Tucson, Arizona (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1969), by George C. Barker (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Arizona)
- The Underworld Speaks: An Insight to Vice, Crime, Corruption (San Francisco: Prevent Crime Bureau, c1935), by Albin J. Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
- Don't Swear! ("no. 10"; Raleigh, NC: Board of Missions of the North Carolina Baptist Convention, n.d.), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter
- Don't Swear! ("no. 32"; Civil war era), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter
- Why Do You Swear?, by John Nevins Andrews
- A Disputation, Betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher, and a Shee Conny-Catcher, Whether a Theefe or a Whoore is Most Hurtfull in Cousonage to the Common-Wealth (London: Printed by A. I. for T. G., 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- A Notable Discovery of Coosenage Now Daily Practised by Sundry Lewd Persons, Called Connie-Catchers, and Crosse-Byters (London: Printed by T. Scarlet for T. Nelson, 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia: In Qua Maxima Improborum et Indoctorum Turba Sub Dio Enudatur, Quos aut Subdola Pietatis Pelle Velatos, aut Insolenti Scientiae Fumo Seu Fuco Obductos, Vel Irreligio Mera, Vel Rapax Avaritia Omnes Ultra Impudentes ad Medicinae Praxin Egit Praecipites (in Latin; London: Excudebat Aug. Matheus, 1624), by Peter Bowne (page images at NIH)
- The Ticket-of-Leave Man: A Drama in Four Acts (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1918), by Tom Taylor
- London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)
- The Hooligan Nights: Being the Life and Opinions of a Young and Impertinent Criminal (1899), by Clarence Rook (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
- The Hooligan Nights: Being the Life and Opinions of a Young and Impertinent Criminal (1899), by Clarence Rook (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
- Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985), by Thomas Andrew Green (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)
- Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Argument in The Case of James Sommersett, a Negro, Lately Determined by The Court of King's Bench: Wherein It Is Attempted To Demonstrate The Present Unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England; To Which is Prefixed a State of The Case: By Mr. Hargrave, One of the Counsel for the Negro (London: Printed for the author, 1772), by Francis Hargrave (page images at HathiTrust)
- Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, by John Mathew Gutch (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)
- The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Miraculous Conformist: or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures Performed by the Stroking of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick, With a Physicall Discourse Thereupon (Oxford, UK: Printed by H. Hall for Ric: Davis, 1666), by Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed: Written by Himself In a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., Whereunto Are Annexed the Testimonials of Several Eminent and Worthy Persons of the Chief Matters of Fact Therein Related (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1666), by Valentine Greatrakes, contrib. by Robert Boyle
- Payment Deferred (c1926), by C. S. Forester (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Capt. Cranstoun's Account of the Poisoning the Late Mr. Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire (London: Printed for R. Richards, ca. 1752), contrib. by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Adventures of Dick Trevanion: A Story of Eighteen Hundred and Four (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Herbert Strang, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions (London: Chapman and Hall, 1919), by Harold Bayley
- English Villages (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
- Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
- Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
- Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
- The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- The Church Bells of Cambridgeshire: A Chronicle of The Principal Companalogical Events That Have Occurred Within the County; To Which Is Appended a List of the Inscriptions on the Bells (Lowestoft, UK: S. Tymms, 1869), by John James Raven
- Early Roman Occupation at Cirencester (Cirencester, England: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1982), by J. S. Wacher and Alan McWhirr (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)
- The Stane Street: A Monograph, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
- Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
- Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the "Old Meeting House", St. Neots, 1691-1890; Together With a Short Survey of the Religious Life of England at the Beginning of This Century (St. Neots: Printed by P. C. Tomson, 1890), by Reginald Denness Cooper
- Histoire de la Civilisation en Angleterre (5 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie., 1865), by Henry Thomas Buckle, trans. by A. Baillot (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of Civilization in England (2 volumes; from the second London edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Henry Thomas Buckle
- Among English Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural England, by Josephine Tozier (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Ein Studienaufenthalt in England (with additional material, in German; Lübeck: Schmidt, 1902), by Adolf Reusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- First Impressions of England and its People (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (HTML in the UK)
- Impressions of England: or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society (second edition; New York: Dana and Co., 1856), by A. Cleveland Coxe
- Letters From England, 1846-1849, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
- Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
- Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway (London: Chapman and Hall, 1901), by Charles G. Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Hundred Days in Europe, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Passages from the English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- Rural Rides (London: A. Cobbett, 1853), by William Cobbett, ed. by James Paul Cobbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785 (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by William Thomson
- Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in England (based on the London Grant Richards edition of 1900), by Richard Le Gallienne, illust. by Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Travels in England in 1782, by Karl Philipp Moritz (Gutenberg text)
- Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852), by George Catlin
- Afoot in England, by W. H. Hudson (Gutenberg text)
- Cathedral Days: A Tour in Southern England (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1899), by Anna Bowman Dodd, illust. by E. Eldon Deane (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by W. Outram Tristram, illust. by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Field and Hedgerow, Being the Last Essays of William Jefferies, Collected By His Widow, by Richard Jefferies, ed. by Mrs. J. Baden (Gutenberg text)
- The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern Land (London: A. Rivers, 1906), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hills and the Sea, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
- Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
- The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- Our Little English Cousin (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, c1908), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 volume "Van Tassel" edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1895), by Washington Irving, illust. by Allan F. Barraud, Frederick S. Church, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (new edition, revised; Columbus, OH: J. H. Riley and Co., 1859), by Frederick Law Olmsted
- The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
- July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: Press of the Brooks Co., 1915), by Mary Raymond Williams
- Picturesque England: Its Landmarks and Historical Haunts, As Described in Lay and Legend, Song And Story (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1891), by L. Valentine (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
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