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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 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)