English Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day. By the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. Cambridge, 1911. —A short and useful introduction.
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century. By James Orchard Halliwell. Brixton Hill: printed for private circulation only, 1852.
Ninth Edition. London: John Russell Smith, 1878.
There are editions up to at least an eleventh, but the ninth is the last we could find complete on line.
The English Dialect Dictionary. Being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years. Edited by Joseph Wright. Oxford, 1898-1905.
Vol.
I. A–C.
Another
copy.
Vol. II. D–G.
Vol.
III. H–L.
Another
copy.
Vol. IV. M–Q.
Vol. V. R–S.
Vol. VI. T–Z.
Supplementary English Glossary, by T. Lewis O. Davies. London: George Bell & Sons, 1881. —It began as a series of notes on slips of paper stuck in a copy of Halliwell (above), but Mr. Davies decided to publish when he reached more than seven hundred printed pages’ worth of supplementary notes. “I determined then not to confine myself to archaic and provincial words, which were what Mr. Halliwell undertook to register, but to insert any expressions, whether old or modern, which were not in the best existing Dictionaries.”
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. By John Jamieson, D.D. Edinburgh, 1808. —In effect a Scottish-English dictionary, the definitions being given in standard English.
The English Dialect Grammar. Comprising the dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney islands, and of those parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is habitually spoken. By Joseph Wright. Oxford, 1905.
A
Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire. By Joseph Wright.
London: English Dialect Society, 1892.
Another
copy.
Another
copy.
A
Grammar of the Dialect of Lorton (Cumberland),
historical and descriptive; with an appendix on the
Scandinavian element, dialect specimens and a
glossary. Inaugural dissertation by Börje Brilioth.
Upsala, [1913].
The
same. Oxford, [1913].
A Bibliographical List of the Works That Have Been Published, or Are Known to Exist in MS., Illustrative of the Various Dialects of English. By the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and J. H. Nodal. English Dialect Society, 1877.