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Filed under: English language

From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
Impenetrability: or, The Proper Habit of English (London: Pub. by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)
The English Language (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1912), by Logan Pearsall Smith (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)

Filed under: English language -- Ability testing

What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Bob Broad (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Filed under: English language -- Capitalization

A Textbook on School Subjects, Drawing and Pedagogics: Penmanship; Vertican Penmansip; Grammar; Punctuation and Capitalization; Double-Entry Bookkeeping; With Questions and Exercises (Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1902), by International Correspondence Schools
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: English language -- Composition and exercises

The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1989), ed. by Pamela B. Childers (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Lynn Z. Bloom (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Mildred Buchanan Flagg
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (author's copyright edition; Boston: Robert Bros., 1883), by Edwin A. Abbott
- Gutenberg text
- page images at HathiTrust
Imitation and Analysis: English Exercises Based on Irving's Sketch Book (Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, c1902), by Francis P. Donnelly, contrib. by Washington Irving
- multiple formats at Google
- page images at HathiTrust
A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition, For the Use of Colleges and Schools (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1867), by John Mitchell Bonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum (c1994), ed. by Pamela B. Childers, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Guide to Composition (Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1919), by James Finch Royster and Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Primer and Language Lessons in English and Cree, by E. B. Glass, trans. by John McDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)
First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
Lessons in Reading-Writing-Arithmetic, for Special School Work in Georgia (Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, state printer, 1916), by Georgia Department of Education
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: English language -- Computer-assisted instruction

Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Filed under: English language -- Dialects

English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day (reprint; originally printed Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Walter W. Skeat (Gutenberg text)
The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: English language -- Diction

Catchwords and Claptrap (London: L. and V. Woolf, 1926), by Rose Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: English language -- Dictionaries

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (first edition volumes, 1888-1928), ed. by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, William A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions (page images at archive.org and HathiTrust)
An American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse, 1828), by Noah Webster
- Volume I (introductory material, and A-I): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume I (J-Z, addition, and corrections): multiple formats at archive.org
An American Dictionary of the English Language (abridged from the quarto edition, revised, with appendix; New York: White and Sheffield, 1841), by Noah Webster, contrib. by John Walker (multiple formats at Google)
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fifth edition) (searchable HTML with commentary at ahdictionary.com)
Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- multiple formats at Google
- page images at HathiTrust
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (12 volumes; New York: The Century Co., c1906-1910), ed. by William Dwight Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (seventh impression of first edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), ed. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
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)
A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785), by Samuel Johnson
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
A Dictionary of the English Language (Boston: Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1860), by Joseph E. Worcester
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous, With a Copious Appendix (Springfield, MA: G. C. Merriam and Co., 1872), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Noah Porter, and William A. Wheeler (page images at MOA)
The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language With a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronounciation, and Use (7 volumes; London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1879-1888), ed. by Robert Hunter
- Volume 1: page images at HathiTrust
- Volumes 2-7: page images at HathiTrust
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (free online edition) (searchable HTML at ldoceonline.com)
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (current edition, with additional material) (searchable HTML at m-w.com)
A New Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; London: W. Pickering, 1836-1837), by Charles Richardson (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)
The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary (6th edition; London: Printed for J. Philips, et al., 1706), ed. by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
- Volume I (Universal Gazetteer, etc.): multiple formats at Google
- Volume II (English Grammar and Dictionary, etc.): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Million of Facts, etc.): multiple formats at Google
- page images at HathiTrust
Universal Dictionary of the English Language: A New and Original Work Presenting for Convenient Reference the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, Use, Origin and Development of Every Word in the English Language (4 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier, 1897), ed. by Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
- searchable HTML at Chicago
- A-B: HUGE Gutenberg text
- C: HUGE Gutenberg text
- D-E: HUGE Gutenberg text
- F-H: HUGE Gutenberg text
- I-L: HUGE Gutenberg text
- M-O: HUGE Gutenberg text
- P-Q: HUGE Gutenberg text
- R: HUGE Gutenberg text
- S: HUGE Gutenberg text
- T-W: HUGE Gutenberg text
- X-Z: Gutenberg text (zipped only)
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

Filed under: English language -- Early works to 1800

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)

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