from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

History of English

General

Bambas, Rudolph C. The English Language: Its Origin and History. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1980.*
Barber, Charles. The Story of Language.
_____. The English Language: A Historical Introduction. (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. Rpt. Cambridge UP-Canto, c. 2000.* (Rev. version of The Story of Language).
Baugh, A. C. A History of the English Language. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951. 1952. 1954. 1956. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. 1960. 1962. 1963. 1965. 1968. 1971. 1974. 1976.
Baugh, A. C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 3rd. ed: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.*
_____. A History of the English Language. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 1993. 1993. 1994. 996. 1997. 2000. 2001. 2002.
_____. A History of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Pearson Education-Prentice Hall, 2002; London: Routledge, 2002.*
_____. A History of the English Language. London: Taylor and Francis-Routledge, 2010.
Bex, Tony. "2. A (Very Brief) History of English." In Bex, Variety in Written English: Texts in Society /Societies in Text. (Interface). London: Routledge, 1996. 30-50.*
Blake, Norman F. A History of the English Language. London: Macmillan, 1996. Rpt. Palgrave.*
Bloomfield, M. W., and L. Newmark. A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English. New York: Knopf, 1963.
_____. A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English.. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Bradley, H. The Making of English. New York: Macmillan, 1904. Rev. ed. 1968.
Brook, G. L. A History of the English Language. (The Language Library). London: André Deutsch,