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• Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Serpentvm et draconv[m] historiae libri dvo (Apud Clementum Ferronium : sumptibus M. Antonii Bernie ..., 1640), by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Francis Willughby, Alexander Grant Ruthven, John Knott, Albert May Todd, and Bartolommeo Ambrosini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serpentum et draconum historiae libri duo (Apud Clementem Ferronium, sumptibus M. Antonij Berni[a]ę ... , 1640), by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Giovanni Battista Coriolano, and Bartolommeo Ambrosini (page images at HathiTrust)

• True and wonderfull A discourse relating to a strange and monstrous serpent (or dragon) lately discouered, and yet liuing, to the great annoyance and diuers slaughters both of men and cattell, by his strong and violent poyson, in Sussex two miles from Horsam, in a woode called S. Leonards Forrest, and thirtie miles from London, this present month of August. 1614. With the true generation of serpents. (Printed at London : by Iohn Trundle, [1614]), by fl. 1614 A. R. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The falling stars or the dragons bringing down, and trampling upon heavenly glory. By John Eston, sometime fellow of Oriel Coll. Oxon. (London : Printed by Francis Leach, 1653), by John Eston (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingersoll (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Evolution of the Dragon (Manchester, the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919), by Grafton Elliot Smith
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor (Chapman & Hall, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment (The University press, 1914), by R. W. Chambers and A. J. Wyatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chinese dragon (Commercial Press, 1922), by L. Newton Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perseus; or, Of dragons (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1925), by H. F. Scott Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of the dragon (The University press;, 1919), by Grafton Elliot Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drachenkämpfe; Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sagenkunde. (Hinrichs, 1907), by Ernst Siecke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Babylonian influence on the Bible and popular beliefs: "Tĕhôm and Tiâmat", "Hades and Satan." A comparative study of Genesis I.2. (D. Nutt, 1897), by Abram Smythe Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dragons and dragon lore (Payson & Clarke ltd., 1928), by Ernest Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drachenkämpfer und befreier in der älteren griechischen und deutschen sage. Eine mythologische skizze ([Wurzen?, 1907), by G. Lohse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drachen und Drachenkämpfer. (Berlin, 1912), by Géza Róheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dragon of the alchemists (E. Mathews, Ltd., 1926), by Frederick Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der drachenkämpfer Ninib (Verlag des verfassers, 1920), by Maurus Witzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last dragon (George H. Doran Co., 1927), by Dan Totheroh and Eleanor Osborn Eadie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dragon in China and Japan. (J. Müller, 1913), by Marinus Willem de Visser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helps to Hereford history, civil and legendary, in an account of the ancient Cordwainers' Company of the city. The Mordiford dragon; and other subjects. (J.R. Smith, 1848), by James Dacres Devlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om draken eller lindormen. Mémoire till Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademien. (Wexiö, 1884), by Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le lumeçon de Mons; histoire, légende, facétie. (Dufrane-Friart, 1901), by Jules Declève (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om draken eller lindormen. Mémoire till Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademien. (Wexjö, 1885), by Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of dragons; a lecture, delivered in the Town Hall, Pendleton, on Wednesday, October 29th, 1879. (J. Heywood, 1879), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altes und neues vom "tatzelwurm," mit einem schlussworte über vergleichende sagenforschung in Österreich-Ungarn. ([Wien, etc., 1895), by Josef Doblhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perseus : or, Of dragons, by H. F. Scott Stokes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Chinese Dragon, by L. Newton Hayes, contrib. by Foo Sec Fong (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Dragon in China and Japan, by Marinus Willem de Visser (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Star Dragon, by Mike Brotherton (multiple formats with commentary at mikebrotherton.com)
• The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill, by Max Beerbohm (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dragon Slayers, by Frank Banta (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett, illust. by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Dragon in China and Japan, by Marinus Willem de Visser (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Horace (New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1951), by Elizabeth Urquhart, illust. by Rosita Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Father's Dragon (New York: Random House, c1948), by Ruth Stiles Gannett, illust. by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Book of Dragons (8-story collection reprinted by Dover), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar and Herbert Granville Fell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Seven Dragons and Other Stories, by E. Nesbit (HTML at Forgotten Futures)
• The Silly Jelly-Fish (Kobunsha's Japanese Fairy Tale series #13; London and Sydney: Griffin Farran and Co., n.d.), by Basil Hall Chamberlain (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Dream days (J. Lane, 1899), by Kenneth Grahame, John Wilson and Son, and Bodley Head (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last dragon (George H. Doran Co., 1927), by Dan Totheroh and Eleanor Osborn Eadie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beowulf. (London, 1898), by Alfred John Church, John Earle, George Morrow, Unwin Brothers (Firm), and Seeley and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dream days (J. Lane, 1915), by Kenneth Grahame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dream days. (Lane, 1900), by Kenneth Grahame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zlato permonovo (A. B. Černý, 1919), by Quido Maria Vyskočil and Josef Wenig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale, by Owen Wister, illust. by John Stewardson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Imaginotions (New York: Century Co., 1894), by Tudor Jenks (page images at Florida)
• The story of Siegfried (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896), by James Baldwin, illust. by Howard Pyle (page images at Florida)
• The courteous knight and other tales (Edinburgh and London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1899), by E Edwardson, Edmund Spenser, and Thomas Malory, illust. by Robert Hope (page images at Florida)
• Heroes of chivalry and romance (London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1898), by Alfred John Church, illust. by George Morrow (page images at Florida)
• With Lance and Sword, or, Old Tales of Chivalry retold (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, 1898), by A. R. Hope Moncrieff and Gall & Inglis (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of the three bold babes (London et al.: Longmans, Green, & Co., n.d.), by S. Rosamond Praeger (page images at Florida)
• The owl king and other fairy stories (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1898), by Herbert Inman (page images at Florida)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.