This pilot-corpus of 19th-century British grammar books consists of 40 grammars (approximately 3 million words). It is designed to contain the most well-known and most widely distributed British grammars of the 19th century.
The forty texts were selected based on their number of published editions, their distribution, common use, prevalence in contemporary books and reports, school and college curricula, as well as their prominence in the secondary literature on grammar writing. Additionally, variety in function, audience, and text/grammar type (e.g. teaching grammars and reference grammars) were considered as selection criteria.
| Author | Year | Title |
| Abbott, Edwin A. | 1871 | English Lessons for English People |
| Alexander, Levy | 1833 | The Young Lady and Gentleman's Guide to the Grammar of the English Language in Verse |
| Arnold, Thomas K. | 1838 | An English Grammar for Classical Schools |
| Bain, Alexander | 1863 | An English Grammar |
| Barnes, William | 1878 | An Outline of English Speech-Craft |
| Booth, David | 1837 | The Principles of English Grammar |
| Churchill, T.O. | 1823 | A New Grammar of the English Language |
| Cobbett, William | 1818 | Grammar of the English Language, in a Series of Letters |
| Coghlan, John | 1868 | Reformed English Grammar |
| Cramp, William | 1838 | The Philosophy of Language |
| Crane, George | 1843 | The Principles of Language; Exemplified in a Practical English Grammar |
| Crombie, Alexander | 1802 | The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language, Explained and Illustrated |
| Daniel, Rev. Evan | 1881 | The Grammar, History and Derivation of the English Language |
| Doherty, Hugh | 1841 | An Introduction to English Grammar, on Universal Principles |
| Duxbury, C. | 1886 | A New English Grammar of School Grammars |
| Earnshaw, Christopher | 1817 | The Grammatical Remembrancer |
| Fleay, Frederick G. | 1884 | The Logical English Grammar |
| Hazlitt, William | 1809 | A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue |
| James, J.H. | 1847 | The Elements of Grammar, according to Dr. Becker's System |
| Jamieson, Alexander | 1818 | A grammar of rhetoric and polite literature |
| Kigan, John | 1825 | A Practical English Grammar, agreeably to a new System |
| Latham, Robert G. | 1843 | An Elementary English Grammar |
| Leigh, Percival | 1840 | The Comic English Grammar |
| Lennie, William | 1810 | The principles of English grammar briefly defined, and neatly arranged |
| Marcet, Jane | 1835 | Mary's Grammar |
| Mason, C. P. | 1858 | English Grammar; including the Principles of Grammatical Analysis |
| McArthur, Alexander | 1836 | An outline of English grammar for the use of schools |
| Meiklejohn, John | 1862–66 | An Easy English Grammar for Beginners |
| Morell, John D. | 1852 | The analysis of sentences explained and systematised |
| Murray, Gerald | 1847 | The Reformed Grammar, or Philosophical Test of English Composition |
| Nesfield, John C. | 1898a | English Grammar Past and Present |
| Nesfield, John C. | 1898b | Manual on English Grammar and Composition |
| Simmonite, Wiliam J. | 1841 | The Practical Self-teaching Grammar of the English Language |
| Smart, Benjamin H. | 1847 | Grammar on its True Basis |
| Steel, G. | 1894 | An English grammar and analysis for students and young teachers |
| Sweet, Henry | 1892/98 | A New English Grammar: logical and historical |
| Thring, Rev. Edward | 1851 | The Elements of Grammar Taught in English |
| White, Frederick Averne | 1882 | English Grammar |
| Williams, David | 1818 | The catechism of English grammar |
| Wiseman, Thomas J. | 1846 | A School Grammar of the English Language |