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 : 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: by Alexander J. Ellis ...
Contributors: Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?; Schmeller, Johann Andreas, 1785-1852; Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552; Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien, prince, 1813-1891; Winkler, Johan, 1840-1916; Child, Francis James, 1825-1896; Fisher, Sidney T. (Sidney Thomson), 1908-1992 (bookstamp)
Series: Chaucer Society. [Publications] Second series -- 1,
Publisher: Published 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: Phonology; Phonetic alphabet; Pronunciation; English language; Dialects
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 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.

Gift; Sidney Thomson Fisher; 1973; RB283803.

Fisher copy: With the bookstamp of Sidney Thomson Fisher.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.  On the pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.; title: Pt. 2.  On the pronunciation of the XIIIth and previous centuries, of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic, with chronological tables of the value of letters and expressions of sound in English writing.