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• A Political Dictionary by Charles Pigott (1795) a political satire; partial transcription with 463 entries Updated 2013-02-11.
• The Printers' Vocabulary by Charles Thomas Jacobi (1888); a dictionary of printing terms; New 2010-07-22.
• A Provincial Dictionary by Francis Grose (1790); 66 regional proverbs. New 2008-07-04.
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer (1894); over 17,000 entries! New 2008-02-15.
• Smiley's Recipe and Housekeeping Guide, historical recipes transcribed and annotated by CatamountClyde Studios; New 2007-11-02.
• Canting Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1736), a dictionary of the slang of the underworld, of thieves, gypsies and vagrants. Text complete; new image added 29th June 2008; reformatted Jan 2010
• Dictionary of the Canting Tongue by Francis Grose (1811)
• Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536-1896] edited by John S. Farmer, 1896. Updated 2006-10-30.
• The Nuttall Encyclpædia, by the Rev. James Wood (1907) (over 14,000 entries; the claim of over 16,000 entries appears not to be correct) Updated 2007-08-04.
• Gesta Typograhica by Chas. T. Jacobi, 1897 [various facts about printing; I am still working on the formatting] Updated 2008-01-30.
• Oratio Dominica, or, The Lord’s Prayer in over a hundred Languages, Versions and Characters (Scripts) by Dan Brown (1713). I have scanned every page, and also an insert folded in the back, so this book is complete.
• Dictionary of Proverbs by Nathan Bailey, 1721. The whole book in text and images (complete)
• The Grammar of Heraldry, by Samuel Kent 1718. I have typed the first chapter on how to Blazon, etc., and will do more if requested. See below on this page for a link to the page images for this book.
• Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey, 1736. A little under 500 entries, but very incomplete; this is a transcription I started in 1991. It is a different book than the dictionary containing the Canting Dictionary.
• The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary edited by Thomas Hearne, 1745. 122 page images including cover and title page; I have started to transcribe names that appear in the text. Updated 2007-05-20.

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• Pictures of some of my old books
  Photographs of some of the books. I choose books because the contents interest me rather than because they have smart bindings or are valuable, and I prefer copies with a broken spine if I plan to scan from them, so they are not always very pretty.
• Pictures of books
  Old pictures that show books or that depict books in some way; also includes photographs of books.

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