16th & 17thC's
John WITHALS : A Shorte Dictionarie English and Latin for Yonge Beginners (1553 London)
Henry COCKERAM (H C Gent) : The English Dictionarie or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words
(1623 London)
B E GENT : A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient & Modern of the Canting Crew (c1690)
[Perhaps the first dictionary of slang]

18thC
Francis GROSE : A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785 London)
Noah WEBSTER : Dissertations on the English Language (1789 Boston)

19thC
Noah WEBSTER : The Compendious Dictionary (1807 Boston)
Jon BEE (John Badcock) : Slang, A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase (1823 London)
Noah WEBSTER : American Dictionary of the English Language (1828 Boston)
Richard Chevnix TRENCH : On the Study of Words & English Past and Present
(1851, 1855 London)
Thomas WRIGHT : Dictionary of Obscure and Provincial English (1857 London)
John Camden HOTTEN : The Slang Dictionary (1859 London)
Joseph WORCESTER : A Dictionary of the English Language (1863 Boston, Mass)
Joseph WORCESTER : A Universal & Critical Dictionary of the English Language
(1864 Boston, Mass)
Henry YULE & A C BURNELL : Hobson-Jobson - A Glossary of Colloquial Indian Words & Phrases
(1886 Calcutta)
Albert BARRERE & C G LELAND : A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant (1889 London)
John S FARMER & W E HENLEY : Slang and Its Analogues (1890-1904) - 7 vols

1901-1950
Stewart A SEGER : American Dictionaries (1913 NY)
G F KRAPP : English Language in America (1925 NY)
(Eds) J A H MURRAY : The New English Dictionary / The Oxford English Dictionary
(1928, 1933 Oxford) - et al
Francis GROSE : A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1931) (1963 London. 3rd Ed)
M M MATTHEWS : Survey of English Dictionaries (1933,1966 NY)
Ervin C SHOEMAKER : Noah Webster - Pioneer of Learning (1936 NY)
Eva Mae BURKETT : American Dictionaries of the English Language before 1861 (1939 NY)
DeWitt T STARNES & Gertrude E NOYES : The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson
(1946 N Carolina)

1951-1979
DeWitt T STARNES : Renaissance Dictionaries (1954 Austin, Tx)
James H SLEDD & Gwin J KOLB : Dr Johnson's Dictionary (1955 Chicago)
Julian FRANKLYN : Rhyming Slang (1960 London)
(Ed) Philip GOVE : Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language
(1961 Springfield, USA)
James H SLEDD & Wilma R EBBITT : Dictionaries and THAT Dictionary (1962 Chicago)
J R HULBERT : Dictionaries British and American (1968 London)
Eric PARTRIDGE : A Dictionary of the Underworld (1968 London. 3rd Ed)
Eric PARTRIDGE : Slang Yesterday and Today (1970 London. 4th Ed)
Eric PARTRIDGE : A Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (1970 London. 8th Ed) - 2 vols
Ladislav ZGUSTA : The Manual of Lexicography (1971 London)
(Eds) Robert BURCHFIELD : Supplements to the Oxford English Dictionary
(1972-86 Oxford) - et al
Ronald A WELLS : Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition (1973 The Hague)
Tetsuro HAYASHI : The Theory of English Lexicography (1978 Amsterdam)
R K K HARTMANN : Dictionaries and Their Users (1979 Exeter)
Eric PARTRIDGE : A Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1979 London)

1981-1990
Albert C BAUGH & Thomas CABLE : A History of the English Language (1980 London. 3rd Ed)
J L CLIFFORD : Dictionary Johnson - Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (1980 London)
R W ROLLINS : The Long Journey of Noah Webster (1980 Phila)
J E CONGLETON & E CONGLETON : Johnson's Dictionary - A Bibliographical Survey 1746-1984
(1984 Indiana)
(Ed) Frederick CASSIDY : Dictionary of American Regional English - Vol 1 (1985 Cambs, Mass)
Cheris KRAMERAE & Paula A TREICHLER : A feminist Dictionary (1985 NY)
Sidney I LANDAU : Dictionaries - The Art & Craft of Lexicography (1985 NY)
Gabriele STEIN : The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985 Tubingen)
Robert McCRUM, Wm CRAN & Robert MacNEIL : The Story of English (1986 London)
Robert BURCHFIELD : Studies in Lexicography (1987 Oxford)
R K K HARTMANN : History of Lexicography (1987 London)
Robert BURCHFIELD : Unlocking the English Language (1989 London)
(Eds) HAUSMANN, REICHMAN, WIEGAND & ZGUSTA : Dictionaries - An International
Encyclopaedia of Lexicography (1989-91) - 3 vols
Gregory JAMES : Lexicographers and their Works (1989)
Jurgen SCHAFER : Early Modern English Lexicography (1989 Oxford) - 2 vols

Since 1991
Robert CLAIRBORNE : The Life & Times of the English Language (1990 London)
Jonathon GREEN : The Encyclopaedia of Censorship (1990 NY)
Allen REDDICK : The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773 (1990 Cambridge)
(Eds) Peter BURKE & Roy PORTER : Language, Self & Society - A Social History of Language
(1991 London)
(Eds) Frederick CASSIDY & J HALL : Dictionary of American Regional English - Vol 2
(1991 Cambs, Mass)
Gary SIMES : A Dictionary of Australian Underworld Slang (1993 Melbourne)
Henri BEJOINT : Tradition & Innovation in Modern Dictionaries (1994 Oxford)
Jonathan LIGHTER : The Historical Dictionary of American Slang - Vol 1 A-G (1994 NY)
John WILLINSKY : Empire of Words - The Reign of the OED (1994 London)
Jonathon GREEN : Chasing the Sun - Dictionary-Makers & the Dictionaries They Made
(1996 Cape £25)