• Leme (Lexicons of Early Modern English)
• A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes , par Robert Crawdrey (1604) (+ text version)
It's the first English dictionary (120 pages, 3 000 words)
• Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum or a General English Dictionary , by John Kersey (1708)
• Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum or a more compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary than any extant , by Nathan Bailey (1730)
• An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1726) & 1737 edition ( with many additions )
• A Dictionary of the English language in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, explained in their Different Meanings , by Samuel Johnson (1768, 3 rd edition) & 1792 edition
• Dictionary of the English language by Samuel Johnson & John Walker (1828 edition)
→ Preface of the first edition (1755)
• Glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists , by Walter Skeat & Anthony Mayhew (1914)
• Johnson's Dictionary: myths and realities , by David Crystal (2018)
Early Modern English language• Grammar of the English tongue, Eine Grammatik der englischen Sprache , by Samuel Johnson & translation into German, by Friedrich Otto (1821)
• A Shakespearian grammar, an attempt to illustrate some of the differences between Elizabethan and modern English , by Edwin Abbott (1877)
• The comparison of adjectives in English (15 th -18 th century) by Louise Pound (1901)
• On early English pronunciation with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer , by Alexander Ellis (1869) : I & II - III - IV - V
• Shakespeare's pronunciation by Wilhelm Viëtor (1906): I ( A Shakespeare phonology & rime-index to the poems as a pronouncing vocabulary ) & II ( A Shakespeare reader )
• The life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791) & introduction by Austin Dobson (1901): I & II
Texts & Literature• The age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe & John William Allen (1904) : I ( Poetry & Prose ) & II ( Drama )
• Elizabethan literature by John Mackinnon Robertson (1914)