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• English language -- Dialects -- England
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• The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond (HTML at Renascence Editions)

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• The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013-2017), by William Barnes, ed. by T. L. Burton
  • Volume 1 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, First Collection, 1844): PDF and audio files at Adelaide
  • Volume 2 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Second Collection, 1859): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
  • Volume 3 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Third Collection, 1862): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
• Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1903), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Barrel Organ, by Edwin Waugh (Gutenberg text)
• Bits o' Broad Lancashire: Poems in the Dialect (ca. 1888), by William Baron (HTML in the UK)
• Dialect of South Lancashire: or, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, Revised and Corrected, With His Rhymes, and an Enlarged and Amended Glossary of Words and Phrases Chiefly Used by the Rural Population of the Manufacturing Districts of South Lancaster (1850), by Tim Bobbin, ed. by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (1865), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (sheet music edition from Hime and Addison), by Edwin Waugh (PDF files in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Manchester, UK: John Heywood, 1883), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Second Series) (Liverpool: G. Walmsley; Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1889), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)

• A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Early English Pronunciation, With Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer (5 volumes (Early English Text Society Extra Series 2, 7, 14, 23, and 56); 1869-1889), ed. by Alexander John Ellis
  • Part I (On the Pronunciation of the XIVth, XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part II (On the Pronunciation of the XIIIth and Previous Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part III (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part IV (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part V (Existing Dialectal As Compared With West Saxon Pronunciation): multiple formats at Google

• The Dialect of the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire: With a Glossary of Words Now in Use There; Also With Poems and Other Pieces Exemplifying the Dialect (second edition; London: John Russell Smith, 1869), by James Jennings
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected text in Czech Republic

• Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text)

• Songs of the Ridings, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (EETS #1, second edition; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1869, reprinted 1965), ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Catalogue of Antiquities in the Museum of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes (2 volumes in 1; Devizes: The Society at the Museum, 1896-1911), ed. by William Cunnington, Maud Edith Pegge Cunnington, and E. H. Goddard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts (London: J. R. Smith; Salisbury: W. B. Brodie and Co., 1846), by Edward Duke (multiple formats at Google)

• Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek" (2 volumes; London: C. J. Skeet, 1859), ed. by Cyrus Redding (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wild Life in a Southern County (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1879), by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, by W. H. Hudson (second series; Gutenberg text)
• History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe, in the County of Wilts: Chiefly Compiled From Original Mss. and Chartularies at Castle Combe; With Memoirs of the Families of Dunstanvile, Badlesmere, Tiptoft, Scrope, Fastolf, etc. (London: Printed by J.B. Nichols and Son, 1852), by George Poulett Scrope (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe, in the County of Wilts: Chiefly Compiled From Original Mss. and Chartularies at Castle Combe; With Memoirs of the Families of Dunstanvile, Badlesmere, Tiptoft, Scrope, Fastolf, etc. (London: Printed by J.B. Nichols and Son, 1852), by George Poulett Scrope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Natural History of Wiltshire, by John Aubrey (Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek" (2 volumes; London: C. J. Skeet, 1859), ed. by Cyrus Redding (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, by W. H. Hudson (second series; Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek" (2 volumes; London: C. J. Skeet, 1859), ed. by Cyrus Redding (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek" (2 volumes; London: C. J. Skeet, 1859), ed. by Cyrus Redding (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, by W. H. Hudson (second series; Gutenberg text)

• A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, by W. H. Hudson (second series; Gutenberg text)

• The Natural History of Wiltshire, by John Aubrey (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Life in a Southern County (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1879), by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, by W. H. Hudson (second series; Gutenberg text)

• A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, by W. H. Hudson (second series; Gutenberg text)