Jamieson Boyd Hurry 1857 - 1930 wrote a definitive book about woad which was published posthumously by Oxford University Press, London : Humphrey Milford. "This Bibliography is confined to the principal sources from which 'The Woad Plant and its Dye' has been constructed. Less important references will be found in the text. An asterisk indicates that the Article is illustrated."

ANONYMOUS AUTHOR. The Whole Art of Dyeing, 1705, i, pp. 156 f., 306 f., and passim.
ANONYMOUS AUTHOR (L'Anonymus Bernensis). Un Traite de Peinture du Moyen Age, ed. by G. Loumyer, 1908.
ASTRUC, J. 'De la Culture et de la Préparation du Pastel ou Guesde', * Mémoires pour l' Histoire Naturelle de la Province de Languedoc, 1737, p. 323.
BAILLON, H. Natural History of Plants, 1874, iii, p. 197.*
BALL, W. 'A Woad Mill', Aunt Judy's Annual Volume, 1883, pp. 547 f.*
BANCROFT, E. Philosophy of Permanent Colours, 1794, i, pp. 106 f. .
BARRAL, J. A., and SAGNIER, H. Dictionnaire d' Agriculture, 1900, iv, pp. 50f*.
BENTHAM, G., and HOOKER, J. D. Genera Plantarum, 1862, i, p. 94.
BIFFEN, R. H. 'Woad', J. R. Agricultural Soc., 78 (1917) pp. 84-92.*
BILLINGSLEY, J. Agriculture of the County of Somerset, 1797, pp. 113 f.
BLITH, W. The English Improver Improved, or the Survey of Husbandry, 1653, pp. 227 f. .
BOISSIER, E. Flora Orientalis, 1867, i, p. 380.
BROCKHAUS, F. A. Konversations-Lexikon, 1902, ix, p. 716.
BRUSLONS, SAVARY DES. Dictionnaire du Commerce, 1726, ii, col. 1718 f.
CAMDEN, W. Britannia, 1806, i, p. lxii.
CANDOLLE, A. DE. Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale, 1821, ii, pp. 564 f. .
CAPEL, G. DE. Memoires de l'Histoire du Languedoc, 1633, i, pp. 47 f.
COLER, J. Oeconomia, 1692, v, pp. 88 f.
CORDER, E. 'On the Culture and Preparation of Woad at Parson Drove', Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, v, 1890, pp. 144 f.*
CROLACHIUS, H. De Cultura Herbae Isatidis, 1555 (reprinted in D. G. Schreber's Beschreibung des Waidtes, 1752).
DARWIN, F., and MELDOLA, R. 'A Visit to an English Woad Mill', Nature, lv (1896-7), p. 36.*
DIXON, E. 'The Florentine Wool Trades in the Middle Ages', Trans. R. Hist. Soc. xii (1898), pp. 151-79.
DOREN, A. Die Florentiner Wollentuchindustrie, 1901, pp. 80 f., 364 f., and passim.
DU CANGE. Glossarium, 1733, s. Gaisdium.
DUNN, S. T. Alien Flora of Britain, , 1905, p. 22.
ESPINAS, G. La Draperie dans la Flandre Française au Moyen Âge, 1923, ii, pp. 90-100.
ESPINAS, G., et PIRENNE, H. Recueil de Documents relatifs a l'Histoire de l'Industrie Drapière en Flandre, 1909, ii, pp. 677-84.
GILLIODTS VAN SEVEREN. Cartulaire de l'Ancienne Estaple de Bruges, i, pp. 410, 697, 162, 670-2, 627, &c.
GIOBERT, G. A. Traité sur le Pastel et l'Extraction de son Indigo, 1813.*
GRIMM, J. 'Marcellus Burdigalensis', Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1847, pp. 429 f.
GRIMM, J. and W. Deutsches Wörterbuch, 1922, xiii, pp. 1032 f.
HARRIS, J. RENDEL. A Primitive Dye-Stuff, 1927.*
HEGI, G. Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa, 1906-12, iv (i), p. 195.
HEINRICH, J. B. Abhandlung über die Cultur des Waids, 1812.*
HELLOT, MACQUER, and LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. The Art of Dyeing Wool, Silk and Cotton, 1789; 2nd ed. 1901, pp. 22 f.
HEYNE, M. Haus-Alterthumer, 1899, ii, pp. 70-1; iii, pp. 24° f.
HOOPS, J. Waldbäume und Kulturpflanzen, 1905, p. 473.
HORWOOD, A. R. British Wild Flowers, 1919, ii, pp. 171 f.*
HUDSON and TINGEY. Records of the City of Norwich, 1910, ii, pp. 209-12, and passim.
JACKSON, J. R. 'Woad Manufacture at Wisbech', Gardeners' Chronicle, 1882, i, pp. 335 f.*
JECHT, H. Geschichte des Ostdeutschen Waidhandels und Tuch machergewebes, 1925. (Reprinted in Neues Lausitzisches Magazin, Pts. 99 (1923) and 100 (1924).)
KNECHT, RAWSON and LÖWENTHAL. Manual of Dyeing, 1910, i, pp_ 320-3.
KNOTHE, H. 'Geschichte des Tuchmacher-Handwerks in der Oberlausitz', Neues Lausitzisches Magazin, lviii (1882), pp. 254 f.
La Grande Encyclopedie. xxvi, p. 69.
LAROUSSE, P. Grand Dictionnaire Universel, 1874, xii, pp. 375-6.
LASTEYRIE DU SAILLANT, C. P. Du Pastel, de l'Indigotier, et des autres Végétaux dont on peut extraire une Couleur-bleue, 1811.
LAUTERBACH, F. Der Kampf des Waids mit dem Indigo, 1905.
LINNAEUS, C. Species Plantarum, 1753, ii, p. 670.
MACPHERSON, D. Annals of Commerce, 1805, i, pp. 359, 382.
MADOX, T. History of the Exchequer, 1769, i, Ch. xviii, §§ 3, 4 (2nd ed., pp. 773-6).
MAGNEVILLE, M. DE. 'L' Ancienne Culture du Pastel dans la Basse-Normandie', Rapport s. les Travaux de l'Académie de Caen, 1811, pp. 5 f.
MICHEL, F. Histoire du Commerce et de la Navigation à Bordeaux, 1870, i, pp. 295 f.
MOLISCH, H. 'Ueber das Vorkommen von Indican im Chlorophyllkorn der Indicanpflanzen', Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, xvii (1899), p. 228, Pl. XVIII.
MORTON, J. C. Cyclopaedia of Agriculture, 1855, ii, pp. 1159 f.
Norwich, Records of the City of. 1910, ii, pp. xxiii, 209 f.
NYMAN, C. F. Conspectus Florae Europaeae, 1878-1882, p. 67; Suppl. ii, 1889-90, pp. 9, 40.
OXFORD DICTIONARY. s. '.Woad'.
PARLATORE, F. Flora Italiana, 1890, ix, pp. 1036-7.
PECKOVER, S. 'Woad, its History and Cultivation', Friends' Quarterly Examiner, 1881, lviii, pp. 257 f.
PRATT, A. Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain, 1899, i, p. 55.*
PLOWRIGHT, C. B. 'Woad as a Prehistoric Pigment', J. R. Horticultural Soc. xxvi (1901-2), p. 33.*
PLOWRIGHT, C. B. 'On the Archaeology of Woad', J. British Archaeological Assoc. ix (1903), pp. 95 f.
PUYMAURIN, DI. Notizia intorno al guado (Isatis tinctoria) della sua coltura, a de mezzi l'estrazione l'indaco, 1810.
REES, A. Cyclopaedia, 1819, xxxviii, s. 'Woad'.
RESCH, A. VAN. Sieg des Waid-Indigs über den Ausländischen Indig, 1812.*
ROBERTS, L. R. The Marchants Mapp of Commerce, 1638, Chs. xxxviii, xxxix, cxxiii.
ROUY ET FOUCAUD. Flore de France, 1895, ii, p. 99.
SCHRADER, O. Reallexicon der Indogermanischen Altertumskunde, 1901, p. 932.
SCHREBER, D. G. Beschreibung des Waidtes, 1752.*
SCHUNCK, E. 'On the Formation of Indigo-blue', London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, x (1855), pp. 73 f.
Somerset, Victoria History of. 1911, ii, pp. 420 f.
SOWERBY, J. English Botany, 1863, i, p. 223, Pl. CLXI.*
THIERRY, A. Recueil des Monuments inédits de I'Histoire du Tiers État, 1850. Index.
TRAUTVETTER, E. R. 'De Sameraria et Isatide generibus commentatio', Mémoires de l'Academie de St. Petersburg, iv (1845), pp. 299 f.*
URE, A. Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, 1863, ii, pp. 498 f.; iii, pp. 1041 f.
WAGNER, E. Waidbau und Waidhandel in Thüringen, 1925.
WATT, G. Economic Products of India, 1890, iv, p. 524.
WEDELIUS, G. W. De Sale Volatili Plantarum, 1675, Chs. vii, viii.
WRIGHT, J. English Dialect Dictionary, s. 'Woad'.
YOUNG, A. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln, 1799, pp. 149 f.