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 There is one book that all the books you just mentioned minus a few modern encounters that these are based on and thats Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz. It's a classical work and is a must read.  Also I found out yesterday there are some Ashmole Manuscripts out there on the subject. If this is the case they probably contain very important information. Ashmole was a key figure in preserving the Dee manuscripts and what he saved had more influence on modern paganism and wicca than anything or anyone else in the past 500 years except maybe Agrippas 3 books of Occult Philosophy.

Another classical must read for this sort of things is Shamanism the Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade. It sheds a great deal of light on related subject and the otherworld, the beliefs cross cultural and national bounderies. This documents true paganism much of the content is minus Christianization which seems to have invaded much of the lore in western mysticism. It is an anthropological read but has more information in it than most modern books on the subject of magic and paganism.

Getting a hold of those books may be a challenge. It's really rather a quest in a way. the only one that would be easy is the 3 Books of Occult Philosophy  The edition by Donald Tyson. This edition is translated and footnotes explain the more obscure parts of the manuscript.

If your into wicca and follow one of the major traditions, Your essentially following Golden Dawn techniques for banishing ect. Matthers who invented the Golden Dawn and the techniques followed by many pagans today got his information from this book an older edition of course but the same material none the less. Another source document for this would be Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft ( I'm using modern spelling) That is a very very tough read. but it is the oldest source manuscript of grimoires such as the Lemmegaton. ( Goetia, Ars Theurgia, and Ars Noteria) I don't recommend Scot's. Reading it gives me a headache after about 5 minutes, and there is so much crap in with the good stuff that it takes a lot of work to get anything worthwhile out of it. 

 I'm rather curious about John Matthews work. I know a friend of his who thinks the world of him but what I know of his work it's not straight foward at all but there appears to be some real originiality in it which  grabbed my attention.

I will be working on finding out more information about the Ashmole Manuscripts on the subject.

Thank you!! I'll have to see what I can find about those.  I do admit I've heard of the Fearie Faith one before I just haven't come across it yet.  And from what I've read about the John Matthews book, he took the original version of Kirks diary and a few pages that were found recentlyish and made the copy i picked up.  I'm really intrested to hear how his book of the Sidhe is.  And I've come across a guy who claims to be really in touch with his Elven past life to the point he remembers everything about it and wrote an online book.  Now I can't bring myself to read it all, mainly because of the small print lol, but I'm leaving a link to it to see what you think of it.  To be honest I can't tell if its legit, made up or a mix of both.

http://mardukiteministries.boo…../boef.aspx

I want to learn as much as I can about those of the other realm, and try to decipher through all the bad press and the candy corn fluff to the heart of Faerie.  And also how I can incorporate them properly into my wiccan an along with that help them to change the world so it is back in Nature's hands.  If its any help what training I've been given has been loosely done based off of Silver Ravenwolf's teachings.

its all good! You've helped out tremendously!!  I mainly just need to get some ideas, on how to get started.