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• Warner's Walk through Wales (Sold by Wilkie and Robinson, 1813), by Richard Warner, C. Davies, James Comrie, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

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• British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880), by Wirt Sikes, illust. by T. H. Thomas
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• The Description of Wales, by Giraldus Cambrensis (Gutenberg text)
• The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales, by Giraldus Cambrensis (Gutenberg text)
• A Child's Christmas in Wales (c1950), by Dylan Thomas (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales (London: E. Stock, 1909), by Marie Trevelyan
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• Old stone crosses of the vale of Clwyd and neighbouring parishes, together with some account of the ancient manners and customs and legendary lore connected with the parishes. (B. Quaritch;, 1886), by Elias Owen and Willard Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• The itinerary through Wales, and the description of Wales (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1908), by Cambrensis Giraldus and William Llewelyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Itinerarium cambria︠e︡ seu laboriosa︠e︡ Baldvini Cantuariensis archiepiscopi per Walliam Legationis accurata descriptio auctore Silv. Geraldo Cambrense (Typis Gulielmi Bulmer et Socci, 1804), by Cambrensis Giraldus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wales: the language, social condition, moral character, and religious opinions of the people, considered in their relation to education: withsome account of the provsion made for education in other parts of the kingdom. (J.W. Parker, 1849), by Thomas Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cambrian superstitions, comprising ghosts, omens, witchcraft, traditions, &c. To which are added a concise view of the manners and customs of the principality, and some fugitive pieces (Norwood Editions, 1972), by William Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The perfidious Welshman (S. Paul, 1910), by Arthur Tysilio Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ab Ithel : an account of the life and writings of Rev. John Williams Ab Ithel ... late rector of Llanymowddwy, Merioneth (W. Kent, 1871), by James Kenward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambrian popular antiquities; or, An account of some traditions, customs, and superstitions, of Wales, with observations as to their origin, &c. &c. Illustrated with copper plates, coloured from nature. (Printed for E. Williams, 1815), by Peter Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character of the Welsh. (Simpkin and Marshall [etc.];, 1841), by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The itinerary through Wales and The description of Wales (J.M. Dent & sons, ltd ;, 1919), by Giraldus Cambrensis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Snowdon Mountains; with some account of the customs and manners of the inhabitants. To which is added a genealogical account of the Penrhyn families. (Sold by E. Williams, 1802), by William Williams and John Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambrian popular antiquities (Printed for E. Williams, 1815), by Peter Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cymru : cylchgrawn misol i ymdrin â hanes, llenyddiaeth cân, celf ac addysg Cymru. (gan Gwmni y Cyhoeddwyr Cymreig, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Welshman's reputation : a reply to a recent satire on the Welsh entitled The perfidious Welshman (S. Paul, 1911), by Englishman and A. T. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character of the Welsh as a nation (Simpkin and Marshall [etc.], 1841), by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A prize essay in English and Welsh, on the character of the Welsh as a nation, in the present age. (Simpkin and Marshall [etc.], 1917), by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The itinerary through Wales, and the description of Wales. (J. M. Dent ;, 1930), by Giraldus Cambrensis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales, by Jonathan Ceredig Davies, contrib. by Alice Amherst (Gutenberg ebook)

• My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales (London: A. Melrose, ca. 1916), by Caradoc Evans
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• Cousin Henry : a novel (Chapman and Hall, 1879), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Welsh doorways (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by Jeannette Augustus Marks, Anna Whelan Betts, Adrian J. Iorio, Riverside Press, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother earth; a sentimental comedy (J. F. Taylor & Company, 1902), by Frances Forbes-Robertson Harrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Welsh Doorways, by Jeannette Augustus Marks, illust. by Anna Whelan Betts (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mushroom Town, by Oliver Onions (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Neighbors: Stories of the Welsh People, by Caradoc Evans (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bye-Gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties, ed. by John Askew Roberts (partial serial archives)

• Bye-Gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties, ed. by John Askew Roberts (partial serial archives)

• Guide to the town and neighbourhood of Abergavenny. (J.H.Morgan, 1845), by John White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Llanberis, ei hanes, ei phobl a'i phethau. (Gumni y cyhoeddwyr cymreig, 1908), by Griffith Tecwyn Parry (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Golden Fleece (London: Printed for F. Williams, 1626), by William Vaughan
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• Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
• The Diary of John Evelyn (2 volumes; New York and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Tatler. (Printed by C. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804), by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F. R. S. from 1641 to 1705-6 : with memoir (F. Warne, 1879), by John Evelyn and William Bray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of John Evelyn, from 1641 to 1705-6, with memoir (F. Warne, 1880), by John Evelyn and William Bray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Printed by Bye and Law for Messrs. Longman, Dodsley, Law ... [et al.], 1797), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angleterre : sur ce qu'il y a trouvé de plus remarquable, tant à l'égard de la religion, que de la politique, des moeurs, des curiositez naturelles, & quantité de faits historiques, avec une description particuliere de ce qu'il y a de plus curieux dans Londres, le tout enrichi de figures. (Chez Henri van Bulderen ..., 1698), by Henri Misson, Henri Bulderen, Johannes van den Aveele, and Maximilien Misson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Comical Pilgrim; or, Travels of a Cynick Philosopher...: Thro' the most Wicked Parts of the World, Namely, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 2 of 2), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray, contrib. by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pleasant quippes for vpstart nevvfangled gentlevvomen. (Imprinted at London : by Richard Iohnes, 1596), contrib. by Stephen Gosson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess. Together with all manner of games either on cards, or dice. To which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting. (London : Printed by Charles Brome ..., 1687), by Charles Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1796-1799), by Joseph Strutt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Haec-Vir, or, The Womanish-Man: Being an Answere to a Late Booke Intituled Hic-Mulier (London: Printed for I. T., 1620) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Anatomy of Absurdity (1589; spelling modernized), by Thomas Nash (PDF at oxford-shakespeare.com)
• 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 Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (new and improved edition, 2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1842), by Joseph Strutt, ed. by J. R. Planché
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (AMS Press, 1970), by Mary Wortley Montagu, W. Moy Thomas, and James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manners and meals in olden time (Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1868), by Frederick James Furnivall, active 1549-1563 F. S. (Francis Segar), John Russell, Hugh Rhodes, Wynkyn de Worde, and Richard West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil. (Reprinted for the Shakespeare society, 1842), by Thomas Nash and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar letters domestic and foreign; divided into four books: partly historical, political, philosophical. Upon emergent occasions. (R. Ware [etc.], 1754), by James Howell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles observations sur l'Angleterre (Veuve Duchesne, 1779), by Gabriel-François Coyer, John Wilkes, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howell's letters. (J. Darby [etc.], 1726), by James Howell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quip for an upstart courtier (Printed by E. Purslow, dwelling at the east end of Christs-Church, 1635), by Robert Greene, active 1577 F. T., Albert Fairfax Fairfax of Cameron, Ernest E. Baker, Robert S. Pirie, and Elizabeth Purslowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maroccus extaticus. Or, Bankes bay horse in a trance A discourse set downe in a merry dialogue, betweene Bankes and his beast: anatomizing some abuses and bad trickes of this age. Written and intituled to mine host of the Belsuage, and all his honest guests. By Iohn Dando the wierdrawer of Hadley, and Harrie Runt, head ostler of Bosomes Inne. ([London] : Printed [by Thomas Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, 1595), by John Dando and Harrie Runt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Platoes cap Cast at this yeare 1604, being leape-yeere. (London : Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Ieffrey Chorlton, 1604), by Adam Evesdropper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Book of curtesye. ([Westminster : By William Caxton, 1477-1478]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The schoole of vertue and booke of good nourture for chyldren, and youth to learne theyer dutie by. Newely persued, corrected, and augmented by the fyrst auctour. F.S with a briefe declaration of the dutie of eche degree. Anno. 1557. (Imprinted at London : In Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Hedgehogge by Wyllyam Seares, [Anno. 1557]), by fl. 1549-1563 F. S. (Francis Segar) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute betvveen veluet breeches and clothbreeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades. (London : Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, and are to bee sold at his shop at Poules chayne, 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute betvveen veluet breeches and cloth-breeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades. (London : Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, and are to bee sold at his shop at Poules chayne, 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader. (Imprinted at London : By W. W[hite], 1598), by Gervase Markham and fl. 1598 I. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Book of curtesye. ([Enprynted atte Westmoster : [Wynkyn de Worde, 1492]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anatomie of abuses. Part 2 (London : Printed by R. W[ard] for William Wright, and are to be sold at his shop ioining to S. Mildreds Church in the Poultrie, being the middle shop in the rowe, [1583]), by Phillip Stubbes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Treatise against painting and tincturing of men and women (Imprinted at London : [By Thomas Creede and Bernard Alsop] for Edward Marchant, 1616), by Thomas Tuke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The vvyll of the Deuyll with his ten detestable commaundementes: directed to his obedient and accursed chyldren, and the reward promised to all such as obediently will endeuer themselues to fulfil them. Whervnto is adioyned, a dyet for diuers of the deuylles dearlinges, commonly called, dayly dronkardes. Very necessarie to be read, and wel considered of all Christians. (Imprinted at London : By [J. Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, [1580?]), by Humphrey Powell and George Gascoigne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The court and country, or A briefe discourse dialogue-wise set downe betweene a courtier and a country-man contayning the manner and condition of their liues, with many delectable and pithy sayings worthy obseruation. Also, necessary notes for a courtier. VVritten by N.B. Gent. (Printed at London : By G. Eld for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible without Newgate, 1618), by Nicholas Breton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The anatomie of absurditie contayning a breefe confutation of the slender imputed prayses to feminine perfection, with a short description of the seuerall practises of youth, and sundry follies of our licentious times. No lesse pleasant to be read, then profitable to be remembred, especially of those, who liue more licentiously, or addicted to a more nyce stoycall austeritie. Compiled by T. Nashe. (At London : Printed by I. Charlewood for Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at his shop in Lumberd street, vnder the signe of the Popes heade, Anno. Dom. 1589), by Thomas Nash (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Coach and sedan, pleasantly disputing for place and precedence the brewers-cart being moderator. (London : Printed by Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to be sold by Edmund Paxton, dwelling at Pauls chayne, neere Doctors-Commons, 1636), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English ape, the Italian imitation, the footesteppes of Fraunce VVherein is explaned, the wilfull blindnesse of subtill mischiefe, the striuing for starres, the catching of mooneshine: and the secrete found of many hollow hearts. by W.R. (At London : Imprinted by Robert Robinson, and are to be sold by Richard Iones dwelling at Holborne Conduit at the signe of the Rose and Crowne, 1588), by William Rankins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The boke of nurtur for men seruauntes, and children with Stans puer ad mensam, newelye corrected, verye vtyle and necessarye vnto all youth. ([[London] : Imprinted by me Thomas Colwell: dwellynge in the house of Robert Wyer, beside Charing Crosse, [1560?]]), by Hugh Rhodes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The honestie of this age· Proouing by good circumstance that the world was neuer honest till now. By Barnabee Rych Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. (Printed at London : [By Thomas Dawson] for T[homas] A[dams], 1614), by Barnabe Rich (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• My ladies looking glasse VVherein may be discerned a wise man from a foole, a good woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked vnder the vizard of vertue. By Barnabe Rich Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. (London : Printed [by John Legat] for Thomas Adams, 1616), by Barnabe Rich (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A journey to England With some account of the manners and customs of that nation. Written at the command of a nobleman in France. Made English. (London : printed, and sold by A. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms-Inn in Warwick-Lane, 1700), by John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• London and the countrey carbonadoed and quartred into seuerall characters. By D. Lupton (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1632), by Donald Lupton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A quest of enquirie, by women to know, whether the tripe-wife were trimmed by Doll yea or no. Gathered by Oliuer Oat-meale. (Imprinted at London : By T.G. and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, 1595), by Oliver Oat-meale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Brideling, sadling and ryding, of a rich churle in Hampshire, by the subtill practise of one Judeth Philips, a professed cunning woman, or fortune teller. (Printed at London : By T[homas] C[reede] and are to be solde by William Barley, at his shop in New-gate Market, neare Christ-Church, 1595) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Come, and I'le cure you. (London : Printed by I[ohn] O[kes] for Thomas Lambert and are to bee sold at his shop neere the hospitall gate in Smithfield, at the signe of the Horse-shooe, 1638), by Joannes Baptista Guardano Lodovico puncto (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hæc-vir: or, The womanish-man: being an answere to a late booke intituled Hic-mulier. Exprest in a briefe dialogue betweene Hæc-vir the womanish-man, and Hic-mulier the man-woman. (London : printed [at Eliot's Court Press] for I. T[rundle] and are to be sold at Christ Church gate, 1620) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Muld sacke: or The apologie of Hic Mulier: to the late declamation against her Exprest in a short exclamation. Non est mollis è terris ad astra via. Muld sacke, muld sacke. (London : Printed [by William Stansby] for Richard Meighen, and are to be sold at his shops vnder Saint Clements Church, and at Westminster Hall, 1620), by Hic Mulier (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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