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Page 3 - Doctor's, Pardoner's, Wife of Bath's, Friar's, and Summoner's Tales, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, with the remaining 13 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS, and with Specimens of the Variations of 30 MSS in the Doctor-Pardoner Link.
Page 94 - Is. for the EXTRA SERIES, due in advance on the 1st of JANUARY, and should be paid by Cheque, Postal Order, or Money Order, crost ' Union of London and Smith's Bank,
Page 2 - Inasmuch as the parallel arrangement necessitated the alteration of the places of certain tales in some of the MSS, a print of each MS has been issued separately, following the order of its original.
Page 6 - Consolationis, AD 1246 (the Latin source of the French original of Chaucer's Melibe), edited from the MSS, by Dr. Thor Sundby. Of the Second Series, the issue for 1874 is, 9. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part II. : 3. John of HovedenS Prarticn Chilindri, edited from the MS.
Page 2 - The Society's issue for 1868, in the First Series, is, I. The Prologue and Knight's Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and in 5 old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the "Moveable Prologues...
Page 6 - Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., FRS Part I. This work includes an amalgamation of Prof. FJ Child's two Papers on the use of the final -e by Chaucer (in T. Wright's ed. of The Cnnterb.
Page 2 - XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 10 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS.
Page 2 - Of Chaucer's Minor Poems, — the MSS of which are generally later than the best MSS of the Canterbury Tales, — all...
Page 6 - MS 56, ab. 1340 AD, collated with the later copy, ab. 1400, in the National Library at Stockholm ; copied and edited, with a translation, by Mr Edmund Brock. 2. The Tale of "Merelaus the Emperor," from the Early-English version of the Gcsta Romanorum in Harl.
Page 3 - MS. (each with woodcuts of fourteen drawings of Tellers of Tales in the Ellesmere MS.) XXI. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I :— 'The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse,' from Thynne's ed. of 1532, the Fairfax MS 16, and Tanner MS 346; 'the Compleynt to Pite,' 'the Parlament of Foules, and 'the Compleynt of Mars,

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