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• English language -- Early works to 1800

• Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

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• An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Online Etymology Dictionary, by Douglas R. Harper (searchable HTML at etymonline.com)
• The Origin of Medical Terms (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1949), by Henry Alan Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)

• DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (second edition, 2017), ed. by Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee (illustrated HTML with commentary at dchp.ca)

• Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• A Dictionary of the Old English Language, Compiled From Writings of the XII, XIII, XIV, AND XV Centuries (second edition, 1873), by Francis Henry Stratmann
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (second edition; London: Printed for B. Tooke, 1712), by Jonathan Swift
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML with commentary at jacklynch.net
• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, by Jonathan Swift (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, about the English Tongue, by Mr. Oldmixon (HTML at Virginia)

• Second Frutes (facsimile reproduction of a 1591 edition, with new introduction; Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1953), by John Florio, contrib. by R. C. Simonini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Familiar Dialogues (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1586), by Jacques Bellot (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1611), by Randle Cotgrave (page images at pbm.com)

• Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues; and Necessary Rules and Short Observations for the True Pronouncing and Speedie Learning of the Italian Tongue, by John Florio (page images with search at pbm.com)

• Aelfrics Grammatik und Glossar (in Old English and Latin with German notes; based on the 1880 edition), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, ed. by Julius Zupitza (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The English Grammar: or, The Institution of Letters, Lables, and Words in the English Tongue, Wherunto is Annexed an Index of Words Like and Unlike (Oxford: Printed by W. Turner for the author, 1633), by Charles Butler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New English Accidence, by Way of Short Question and Answer, Build Upon the Plan of the Latin Grammar, So Far As Agrees With, and is Consistent With the Nature and Genius of the English Tongue (London: Printed for J. Hodges and sold by H. Boad et al., 1736) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Butler's English Grammar (1634) (main text in English, with extensive commentary in German; Halle a.S.: M. Niemeyer, 1910), by Charles Butler, ed. by Albert Eichler
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chieflie of the Right Writing of our English Tung, by Richard Mulcaster (zipped TEI at OTA)

• The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1715), by Elizabeth Elstob (multiple formats at Google)
• Aelfrics Grammatik und Glossar (in Old English and Latin with German notes; based on the 1880 edition), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, ed. by Julius Zupitza (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (based on the 1715 edition, with Charles Peake's commentary and additional notes), by Elizabeth Elstob, contrib. by Charles Peake (illustrated HTML at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, Concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation (London: Printed by I. Bill, 1628), by Richard Verstegan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, Concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation (London: Printed by I. Norton for I. Norton and R. Whitaker, 1634), by Richard Verstegan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue: A Treates, Noe Shorter than Necessarie, for the Schooles (London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1865), by Alexander Hume, ed. by Henry B. Wheatley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Familiar Dialogues (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1586), by Jacques Bellot (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• A Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• A Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Renascence Editions)