Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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The Descrypcyon of Englonde: Here Foloweth a Lytell Treatyse the Whiche Treateth of the Descrypcyon of This Londe Which of Olde Tyme Was Named Albyon and After Brytayne And Now is Called Englonde and Speketh of the Noblesse and Worthynesse of the Same (extract from the Polychronicon; Westminster, UK: W. Theworde, 1498), by Ranulf Higden, trans. by John Trevisa (HTML at EEBO TCP)- Polycronicon (very early English printed edition; 1495), by Ranulf Higden, trans. by John Trevisa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A View of England Towards the Close of the 18th Century (2 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791), by Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Shigurf Namah i Velaët, or, Excellent Intelligence Concerning Europe : Being the Travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France (translated into English and Urdu; London: Parbury, Allen, and Co., 1827), by Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, ed. by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chronycle of Englonde (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1502) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Tabula (London: W. de Worde, 1502), by Ranulf Higden, trans. by John Trevisa (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Britannia (in Latin and English), by William Camden, ed. by Dana F. Sutton, trans. by Philemon Holland (HTML at the Philological Museum)
- Paul Hentzner's Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (based on the 1797 edition; Naunton fragment omitted; spelling modernized), by Paul Hentzner, ed. by Horace Walpole (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; Together With the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century (9 volumes, in English and Latin; London: Longman et al., 1865-1886), by Ranulf Higden, ed. by Churchill Babington and J. Rawson Lumby, trans. by John Trevisa
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 9: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Divided Into Circuits or Journies, by Daniel Defoe (HTML with commentary at Vision of Britain)
- Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; and Fragmenta Regalia, by Paul Hentzner and Robert Naunton (Gutenberg text)
- A Journey Through England, in Familiar Letters From a Gentleman Here to a Friend Abroad (2 volumes; 1722), by John Macky
- A Tour to the West of England, in 1788 (London: Printed for Robson & Clarke, and J. Walker, 1789), by Stebbing Shaw (page images in Germany)
- A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom (London: J. Woodward, 1709), by Samuel Sorbière and Thomas Sprat (page images in Germany)
- Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon (London: Printed by R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795), by Samuel Ireland (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, 1888), by Celia Fiennes, contrib. by Emily Wingfield Griffiths
- Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
- A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine; To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland (second edition, 2 volumes; London: G .G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Ann Radcliffe
- A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark (London: R. Baldwin, 1773), by John Noorthouck (illustrated HTML at British History Online)
- An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (5 volumes (first 2 and start of third by Blomefield; rest by Parkin); 1739-1775), by Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Natural History of Selborne (2 volumes: London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1887), by Gilbert White, ed. by Henry Morley
- The Natural History of Selborne (based on the 1906 Everyman's Library edition, with illustrations from earlier editions), by Gilbert White, contrib. by Bertram C. A. Windle, illust. by William Harvey and W. H. Herbert (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., by James Boswell (Gutenberg text)
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775), by Samuel Johnson (page images in Germany)
- Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1779), by Donald MacNicol (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (based on the 1775 edition with corrections from the 1785 errata), by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., by James Boswell (Gutenberg text)
- A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland, With Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour (ca. 1776), by Mary Ann Hanway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland (one attributed to Howell, now to Weldon; London: Reprinted for T. and J. Egerton, 1788), by Anthony Weldon, contrib. by James Howell (page images in Germany)
- A Gentleman's Tour Through Monmouthshire and Wales, in the Months of June and July, 1774 (London: Printed for T. Evans, 1775), by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (page images at Google)
- Letters From Snowdon: Descriptive of a Tour Through the Northern Counties of Wales (London: Printed for J. Ridley, 1770), by Joseph Cradock (page images in Germany)
- The Description of Wales, by Giraldus Cambrensis (Gutenberg text)
- The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales, by Giraldus Cambrensis (Gutenberg text)
- Doctor Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Including Mrs Thrale's Unpublished Journal of the Welsh Tour Made in 1774 and Much Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of the Streatham Coterie (London and New York: J. Lane, 1910), by Alexander Meyrick Broadley, contrib. by Hester Lynch Piozzi and Thomas Seccombe (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Great Britain -- Description and travel- My Holidays on Inland Waterways: 2000 Miles Cruising by Motor Boat and Pleasure Skiff on the Canals and Rivers of Great Britain (first published 1916), by Peter Bonthron (illustrated HTML with commentary at jim-shead.com)
- The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius of Corcyra (London: Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1841), by Nicander Nucius, ed. by J. A. Cramer, trans. by Isaac Fidler
- Three Years in Europe: or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met (London: C. Gilpin, 1852), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Uganda's Katikiro in England: Being the Offical Account of His Visit to the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1904), by Ham Mukasa, trans. by Ernest Millar, contrib. by Harry Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Wanderings of an Antiquary: Chiefly Upon the Traces of the Romans in Britain (London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1854), by Thomas Wright (page images in Germany)
- Round About a Great Estate, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
- Seven English Cities, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
- The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad. (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1855), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- In Pursuit of Spring (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1914), by Edward Thomas, illust. by E. W. Haslehust (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Among English Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural England, by Josephine Tozier (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Ein Studienaufenthalt in England (with additional material, in German; Lübeck: Schmidt, 1902), by Adolf Reusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- First Impressions of England and its People (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (HTML in the UK)
- Impressions of England: or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society (second edition; New York: Dana and Co., 1856), by A. Cleveland Coxe
- Letters From England, 1846-1849, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
- Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
- Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway (London: Chapman and Hall, 1901), by Charles G. Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Hundred Days in Europe, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Passages from the English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- Rural Rides (London: A. Cobbett, 1853), by William Cobbett, ed. by James Paul Cobbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785 (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by William Thomson (page images in Germany)
- Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in England (based on the London Grant Richards edition of 1900), by Richard Le Gallienne, illust. by Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Travels in England in 1782, by Karl Philipp Moritz (Gutenberg text)
- Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852), by George Catlin
- Afoot in England, by W. H. Hudson (Gutenberg text)
- Cathedral Days: A Tour in Southern England (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1899), by Anna Bowman Dodd, illust. by E. Eldon Deane (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by W. Outram Tristram, illust. by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Field and Hedgerow, Being the Last Essays of William Jefferies, Collected By His Widow, by Richard Jefferies, ed. by Mrs. J. Baden (Gutenberg text)
- The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern Land (London: A. Rivers, 1906), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hills and the Sea, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
- Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
- The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- Our Little English Cousin (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, c1908), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 volume "Van Tassel" edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1895), by Washington Irving, illust. by Allan F. Barraud, Frederick S. Church, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (new edition, revised; Columbus, OH: J. H. Riley and Co., 1859), by Frederick Law Olmsted
- The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
- July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: Press of the Brooks Co., 1915), by Mary Raymond Williams
- Picturesque England: Its Landmarks and Historical Haunts, As Described in Lay and Legend, Song And Story (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1891), by L. Valentine (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
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