On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakespeare 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, including a rearrangement of F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521
By: 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.
Series: [Early English Text Society. Extra series -- 2, 7, 14, 23, 56]; Early English Text Society (Series) -- 2, 7, 14, 23, 56.
Publisher: Published 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: 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: Issued jointly by the Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society; appearing as no. 1, 4-5, 1, 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."

Includes bibliographical references.
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 sounds in English writing; title: pt. 3. Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVth centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Salesbury, Barclay, Hart, Bullokar, Gill, Pronunciation vocabulary; title: pt. 4. ... Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth centuries ... Received American and Irish pronunciation of English. Abstracts of Schmeller's treatise on Bavarian dialects, and Winkler's Low German and Friesian Dialecticon, and Prince L.L. Bonaparte's vowel and consonant lists. Phonological introduction to dialects; title: pt.5. Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation. With two maps of the dialect districts.