On Early English Pronunciation 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

Contains also: a rearrangement of F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welsh, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521; abstracts of Schmeller's Treatise on Bavarian dialects, and Winkler's how German and Friesian dialecticon, and Prince L.L. Bonaparte's vowel and consonant lists.