On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer
Subtitle: 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: by Alexander J. Ellis ; including a re-arrangement of 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
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; Chaucer Society (London, England)
Series: Chaucer Society. Second series -- 1, 4, 5, 11, 25; Chaucer Society publications -- 1, 4, 5, 11, 25
Publisher: Publ. for the Philological Society by Asher & Co. and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society by Trübner & Co.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Language; Pronunciation; Phonetic alphabet; English language; Dialects; Phonology; Alphabet phonétique; Anglais (Langue); Early modern; Middle English; Language and languages
Other titles: English dialects, their sounds and homes.
Notes: Issued jointly by the Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society; appearing as no. 1, 4-5, 1, 25 in 2nd 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."
Table of contents: title: v. 1. On the pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries; title: v. 2. On the pronunciation of the XIIIth and previous centuries, of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic ...; title: v. 3. Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth centuries. Lediard, Bonaparte, Schmeler, Winkler. Received American and Irish pronunciation of English. Phonological introduction to dialects; title: v. 4. Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth centuries; title: v. 5. Existing dialectical as compared with West Saxon pronounciation.