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Here you find links to external sources that you can use for your work.

Facsimile of the original King James Authorized Version of 1611:

https://archive.org/details/1611TheAuthorizedKingJamesBible

Dictionaries

The favorite dictionary for this project until now:

A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, by Robert Crawdrey (1604)

A Table Alphabeticall (1617, 3rd edition) (scanned book)
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)

and the 1775 edition (plus Google version)

A Dictionary of the English language in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, explained in their Different Meanings, by Samuel Johnson (1768, 3rd 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)

New light on some obscure words and phrases in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, by Charles Mackay (1884)

Johnson's Dictionary: myths and realities, by David Crystal (2018)

Early Modern English language

A Grammar of the English tongue by Samuel Johnson (1768)

Grammar of the English tongue, Eine Grammatik der englischen Sprache, by Samuel Johnson & translation in 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 (15th-18th 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)

John Hart's pronunciation of English (1569-1570) by Otto Jespersen (1907)

The life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791) & introduction by Austin Dobson (1901): I & II

Texts & Literature

William Shakespeare: complete works

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)

→ Bible in English: King James (1611)

→ Old English - Anglo-Norman - Middle English - Late Modern English

→ Bible in English

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