A history of English sounds from the earliest period, with full word-lists.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1888
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: English language -- Phonology
Description: From the Preface...

THIS work first appeared in the Transactions of the Philological Society for 1873-4. Additional copies were struck off for the members of the Dialect Society. I also put a few hundred copies into the hands of Mr. Trübner, so as to make the work accessible to the general public; these have long since been sold out. 

My investigations were due to the combined influence of Bell's Visible Speech, Ellis's Early English Pronunciation, and the German school of comparative and historical philology, of which Grimm's Deutsche Grammatlk was to me still the chief exponent.
Table of contents: title: 1
label: PHONETICS; title: 1
label: Analysis; title: 7
label: Synthesis; title: 13
label: Notation; title: 14
label: SOUND-CHANGE; title: 18
label: Internal Isolative; title: 18
label: Breath and Voice; title: 19
label: Vowels; title: 23
label: Consonants; title: 39
label: Quantity; title: 30
label: Force; title: 32
label: Intonation; title: 33
label: Transposition; title: 34
label: Internal Combinative; title: 34
label: Breath and Voice; title: 36
label: Front-Modification; title: 38
label: Back Influence; title: 38
label: Rounding; title: 38
label: Nasalizing; title: 40
label: Parasiting; title: 41
label: Other Influences; title: 43
label: Acoustic Changes; title: 45
label: External Changes; title: 49
label: General Principles; title: 50
label: ORIGIN OF SPEECH-SOUNDS; title: 52
label: ORIGIN OF DIALECTS; label: SOUND REPRESENTATION; title: 59
label: Origin of Writing; title: 60
label: Laws of Form-Change; title: 63
label: Alphabets; title: 65
label: New Letters; title: 67
label: Correspondence of Sound and Symbol; title: 70
label: Normalizing; title: 71
label: Synthesis; title: 72
label: Interpretation of Symbols; title: 74
label: ARIAN SOUNDS; title: 83
label: Consonants; title: 85
label: GERMANIC SOUNDS; title: 86
label: Vowels; title: 87
label: Consonants; title: 93
label: High-German Consonant-Shift; title: 95
label: RUNES; title: 95
label: Germanic; title: 97
label: Old-English; title: 99
label: OLD-ENGLISH SOUNDS; title: 99
label: Dialects and Texts; title: 101
label: Orthography; title: 102
label: Stress (Metre); title: 106
label: Quantity; title: 116
label: Vowels; title: 134
label: Consonants; title: 150
label: SCANDINAVIAN SOUNDS; title: 150
label: Orthography; title: 150
label: Vowels; title: 151
label: Consonants; title: 153
label: Influence on English; title: 154
label: MIDDLE ENGLISH SOUNDS; title: 154
label: Dialects and Texts; title: 156
label: Orthography; title: 163
label: Metre and Stress; title: 165
label: Quantity; title: 171
label: Vowels; title: 189
label: Consonants; title: 199
label: MODERN ENGLISH SOUNDS; title: 199
label: Periods; title: 202
label: Phonetic Authorities; title: 208
label: Orthography; title: 209
label: Short Vowels; title: 229
label: Long Vowels; title: 241
label: Diphthongs; title: 259
label: Consonants; title: 272
label: LIVING ENGLISH SOUNDS; title: 273
label: Stress; title: 274
label: Quantity; title: 275
label: Vowels; title: 277
label: Consonants; title: 279
label: FIRST WORD-LIST; title: 373
label: SECOND WORD-LIST; title: 394
label: INDEX TO FIRST WORD-LIST; title: 402
label: TABLES; title: 402
label: I. Sound-change; title: 404
label: II. Forms of Letters; title: 405
label: III. English Vowels; title: 406
label: IV. Old-English Dialects; title: 406
label: V. Middle-English Dialects; title: 407
label: VI. Modern English Vowels; title: 408
label: CONTRACTIONS