On early English pronunciation
Subtitle: with special reference to Shakspere 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 Barcley 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.
Publisher: Trübner
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Language.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400 -- Language -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Dialects.; English Language -- Phonology.
Notes: Paged continuously, v. 5 has also separate pagination.

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

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An abridgment of the 5th part published by the English dialect society, entitled "English dialects, their sounds and homes." cf. Dict. of nat. biog.