On early English pronunciation
Subtitle: with especial reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in England from the Anglosaxon period to the present day, preceded by a systematic notation of all spoken sounds by means of the ordinary printing types.
By: Including a rearrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521. By Alexander J. Ellis ...
Contributors: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.; Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?; Schmeller, Johann Andreas, 1785-1852.; Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien, prince, 1813-1891.; Winkler, Johan, 1840-1916.
Publisher: Pub. for the Philological society by Asher & co., and the Early English text society and the Chaucer society, by Trübner & co.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400.; English language -- Phonology.; English language -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Phonetic alphabet.; English language -- Dialects -- Phonology.
Notes: Titles of v. 4 and 5 differ slightly. Vol. 5 has imprint: London, Pub. for the Philological society, the Early English text society, and the Chaucer society, by Trübner & co., 1889.

Paged continuously; v. 5 has also separate  pagination.

Issued jointly by the Philological society, the Early English text soicety, and the Chaucer society; appearing as no. 1, 4-5, 11, 25 in 2d series of the publications of the Chaucer society, no. 2, 7, 14, 23, 56, in extra series of the publications of the Early English text society and without number in the Philological society publications.

An abridgement of the 5th part was published by the English dialect society, 1899, in v. 24 under title: "English dialects, their sounds and homes."

Issued in boards.