Secondary:
Andrews, Malcolm. The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1989.
Barbier, Carl Paul. The Reverend William Gilpin and the Picturesque: An Exhibition of the Works of the Reverend William Gilpin, 1724-1804, and Other Members of the Gilpin Family, June to September 1959. London: London County Council, 1959.
Campbell, Kate. “Journalistic Discourse and Constructions of Modern Knowledge.” Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. Eds. Laurel Brake, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. 40-54
Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the Caricaturist. London: Chatto and Windus, 1880.
Hayes, John. Rowlandson: Watercolours and Drawings. London: Phaidon Pres Limited, 1972.
Hotten, John Camden. “The Life and Adventures of the Author of ‘Doctor Syntax”, in Doctor Syntax’s Three Tours in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, and of a Wife. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884.
Hulme, Peter, and Tim Youngs. The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Pickford, Susan. “Images as Eccentric Paratext: Combe and Rowlandson’s Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque.” Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century: Reconfiguring the Visual Periphery of the Text, ed. Christina Ionescu. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Phagen, Patricia. Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England. Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Leman Loeb Art Center, 2011.
Potkay, Adam. ‘Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry.’ A Companion to Romantic Poetry, ed. Charles Mahoney. Wiley Blackwell: Malden, MA, 2011.
Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving; a chapter in the history of book illustration; illustrated by an original aquatint, two collotype plates, and numerous half-tone plates., London : Duckworth & Co., 1909.
Rosenthal, Michael, Christiana Payne, and Scott Wilcox. Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art the Yale Center for British Art Yale UP, 1997.
Samuels, Allan. “Publishing the Picturesque: Ackermann, Rowlandson, and the Art Scene,” Trivium 29-30 (1997), 239-256.
White, Adams. “John Clare: The Man of Taste”. John Clare Society Journal, Vol. 28. July 2009. pp. 38-54.
Wordsworth, William, and Ernest De Sélincourt, ed. Guide to the Lakes. London: Frances Lincoln, 2004.
Primary:
Bannister, John. Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian. London: Richard Bentley, 1839.
Campbell, Thomas. Life of Mrs. Siddons. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834.
Combe, William and Thomas Rowlandson. “The Schoolmaster’s Tour.” Poetical Magazine, London: R Ackerman, June 1809-November 1810. British Periodicals.
Combe, William and Thomas Rowlandson, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. London: R Ackerman, 1812. 1st. ed.
Combe, William and Thomas Rowlandson, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. London: R Ackerman, 1812. 2nd. ed. UNC-Chapel Hill Special Collections.
Dyce, Alexander. Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers.New York: D. Appleton, 1856.
Fielding, T. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes: Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of That Part of the Country &c. &c. London: Printed by William Clowes, 1821. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Gilpin, William. Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales … made in the summer of the year 1770. London: Printed for R. Blamire. 1782. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Gilpin, William. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England: particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. London: Printed for R. Blamire. 1788. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Gilpin, William. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland. London: Printed for R. Blamire. 1789. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Gilpin, William. Three Essays: On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape: to which is added a poem, on landscape painting. London: Printed for R. Blamire. 1792. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Repton, Humphrey. Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: Including Some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, Collected from Various Manuscripts in Possession of the Different Nobleman and Gentleman, for Whose Use They Were Originally Written, the Whole Tending to Establish Fixed Principles in the Respective Arts. London: Printed by T. Bensley and Son … for J. Taylor at the Architectural Library ….1816. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Smollett, Tobias George. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Vol. 48. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1779.
West, Thomas. A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. 5th ed. London: Printing for W. Richardson … J. Robson, and W. Clarke … and W. Pennington, Kendal., 1793. UNC Chapel-Hill Special Collections.
Doctor Syntax and the Picturesque 