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• The English Dialect Grammar: Comprising the Dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and of Those Parts of Scotland, Ireland and Wales Where English is Habitually Spoken (Oxford et al.: H. Frowde, 1905), by Joseph Wright
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• Reason the true arbiter of language; custom a tyrant (Printed for J. Johnson and co., 1814), by James Gilchrist (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Modern flash dictionary, containing all the cant words, slang terms, and flash phrases, now in vogue. (J. Duncombe, 1830), by George Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new canting dictionary, comprehending all the terms, antient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains : interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c. : being a complete collection of all that has been publish'd of that kind, with very large additions of words never before made publick ... : with a preface, giving an account of the original, progress, &c. of the canting crew, and recommending methods for diminishing these varlets, by better employment of the poor : to which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect. (And sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Public School Word-book: A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities, by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Plea for The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (10th thousand; London: Strahan; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1866), by Henry Alford
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• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (third edition; London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1870), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (seventh edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1888), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A plea for the Queen's English; stray notes on speaking and spelling (A. Strahan, 1866), by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Plea for The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (10th thousand; London: Strahan; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1866), by Henry Alford
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• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (third edition; London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1870), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (seventh edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1888), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A plea for the Queen's English; stray notes on speaking and spelling (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864), by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for the Queen's English; stray notes on speaking and spelling (Strahan, 1864), by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionary of the British English Spelling System (version 1.1; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Greg Brooks (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• 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

• Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux. Written by himself., by James Hardy Vaux (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Plea for The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (10th thousand; London: Strahan; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1866), by Henry Alford
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• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (third edition; London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1870), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (seventh edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1888), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A plea for the Queen's English; stray notes on speaking and spelling (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864), by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for the Queen's English; stray notes on speaking and spelling (Strahan, 1864), by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)

• A manual of English prose literature, biographical and critical, designed mainly to show characteristics of style (Ginn & Company, 1892), by William Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of English prose literature, biographical and critical, designed mainly to show characterisics of style (Ginn & Company, 1889), by William Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glory of English Prose: Letters to My Grandson, by Stephen Coleridge (Gutenberg ebook)

• The King's English (second edition), by H. W. Fowler (HTML at Bartleby)
• A plea for the Queen's English; stray notes on speaking and spelling (G. Routledge & sons, 1874), by Henry Alford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The King's English, by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (Gutenberg ebook)

• Remaines concerning Brittaine, but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: : their languages, names, syrnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, moneys, empresses, apparell, artillerie, wise speeches, prouerbes, poesies, epitaphs (Printed by A.[dam] I.[slip] for Symon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the crowne in Pauls Church-yard., 1629), by William Camden, Simon Waterson, and Adam Islip (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of the London Directory, by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Some instances of Latin influence on English place-nomenclature. (Printed by H. Ohlsson, 1910), by R. E. Zachrisson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Thanks awfully! (Field & Tuer, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words, used at the present day in the streets of London (J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary, etymological, historical, and anecdotal. (Chatto and Windus, 1874), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of the English language; chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs; whence it will appear that the natives of the metropolis and its vicinities have not corrupted the language of their ancestors. In a letter from Samuel Pegge ... to an old acquaintance, and co-fellow of the Society of antiquaries [!] London. To which is added, a supplement to the Provincial glossary of Francis Grose. (Printed by and for J. Nichols, son, and Bentley, 1814), by Samuel Pegge and Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of the English language : chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs; whence it will appear that the natives of the metropolis and its vicinities have not corrupted the language of their ancestors ; in a letter from Samuel Pegge ; to an old acquaintance, and co-fellow of the Society of antiquaries, London ; to which is added, a supplement to Grose's "Provincial glossary". (Printed by J.B. Nicholos and Son, 1844), by Samuel Pegge, Henry Christmas, and Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur sprache Londons vor Chaucer (M. Niemeyer, 1913), by Ernst Dölle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Londinismen (slang und cant) Wörterbuch der Londoner Volkssprache sowie der üblichsten Gauner-, Matrosen-, Sport- und Zunft-Ausdrücke; mit Einleitung und Musterstücken; ein Supplement zu allen englisch-deutschen Wörterbüchern (Langenscheidt, 1903), by H. Baumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slang dictionary; etymological, historical and anecdotal. (Chatto & Windus, 1913), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early London dialect; contributions to the history of the dialect of London during the Middle English period (The Clarendon Press, 1928), by Barbara Alida Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes of the English language; chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs (Printed by and for J. Nichols, son, and Bentley, 1803), by Samuel Pegge and Eugene Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slang dictionary (J. C. Hotten, 1865), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• London's dialect, an ancient form of English speech, with a note on the dialects of the North of England and the Midlands and of Scotland (Priory Press, 1910), by MacKenzie MacBride (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes of the English language; chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs; whence it will appear that the natives of the metropolis and its vicinities have not corrupted the language of their ancestors. (Printed by J. Nichols and son, for F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, and J. White, 1803), by Samuel Pegge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Londinismen : (slang und cant) wörterbuch der Londoner volkssprache sowie der üblichsten gauner-, matrosen-, sport- und zunft-ausdrücke (Langenscheidt, 1922), by H. Baumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words : used at the present day in the streets of London, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Houses of Parliament, the Dens of St. Giles, and the Palaces of St. James : preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language from the time of Henry VIII, shewing its connection with the Gipsey tongue : with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers (John Camden Hotten ..., 1859), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary : or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society : many with their etymology and a few with their history traced. (J. C. Hotten, 1869), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of the English language : chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs; whence it will appear that the natives of the metropolis, and its vicinities, have not corrupted the language of their ancestors. In a letter from Samuel Pegge ... to an old acquaintance, and co-fellow of the Society of antquaries [!] London. (Printed by and for J. Nichols, sons, and Bentley, 1814), by Samuel Pegge and Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary; etymological, historical and anecdotal. (Chatto & Windus, 1903), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slang dictionary; or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced. (J.C. Hotten, 1872), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thanks awfully! (Field & Tuer, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary : etymological, historical, and anecdotal. (Chatto & Windus, 1894), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary : etymological, historical, and anecdotal. (Chatto and Windus, 1910), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Sprache Londons vor Chaucer. (Karras, Halle a.S., 1913), by Ernst Dölle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slang dictionary; or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced. (J.C. Hotten, 1864), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pronunciation problems involved in a production of Shaw's Pygmalion. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1927., 1927), by Vivian E. McCarty and Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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