AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Middle English.

Dictionaries.

A Middle-English Dictionary. Containing words used by English writers from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. By Francis Henry Stratmann. A new edition, re-arranged, revised, and enlarged, by Henry Bradley. Oxford, 1891.
Another copy.

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580. By the Rev. A. L. Mayhew and the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. Oxford, 1888.

Grammars.

Historical Outlines of English Phonology and Middle English Grammar for courses in Chaucer, Middle English, and the history of the English language. By Samuel Moore. Ann Arbor: George Wahr, 1919.

An Elementary Middle English Grammar. By Joseph Wright and Elizabeth Mary Wright. Second Edition. Oxford, [no date; “First edition 1923” printed on the back of the title page].

A Middle English Reader. Edited, with grammatical introduction notes, and glossary, by Oliver Farrar Emerson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. —Included here because its “grammatical introduction” is a small book in itself, with cxix numbered pages.

Bibliographies.

A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1400. By John Edwin Wells. Yale and Oxford, 1916. —More than 900 pages, with substantial summaries of the works listed.

A Middle English Bibliography. Dates, dialects, and sources of the XII, XIII, and XIV century monuments and manuscripts exclusive of the works of Wyclif, Gower, and Chaucer, and the documents in the London dialect. Heidelberg 1912: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung.
Another copy.

A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century. By Herbert Coleridge. London: Trübner & Co., 1859.

The Chaucer Canon, with a discussion of the works associated with the name of Geoffrey Chaucer. By the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. Oxford, 1900.

Fifteenth Century English Books. A bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad. By E. Gordon Duff. Printed for the Author at the Cost of the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1917.

Miscellaneous Studies, etc.

An English Miscellany presented to Dr. Furnivall in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday. Oxford, 1901.

English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer. By William Henry Schofield. London: Macmillan and Co., 1931.

French Elements in Middle English. Chapters illustrative of the origin and growth of romance influence on the phrasal power of standard English in its formative period. By Frederick Henry Sykes. Oxford, 1899.

Anthologies.

Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. By Hiram Corson. New York: Holt & Williams, 1871. —More Middle English than Anglos-Saxon is represented here.

A Literary Middle English Reader. Edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook. Boston (etc.): Ginn and Company, 1915. —“This book, then, has been framed, not in the interest of grammar, or of dialectical study, or of lexicography, but of literary enjoyment and profit.… If this book succeeds in making the Middle Ages seem more attractive, more clearly related to modern times, or more profoundly suggestive, the editor will be satisfied.”

A Middle English Reader. Edited, with grammatical introduction notes, and glossary, by Oliver Farrar Emerson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.

Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse. Edited by George H. McKnight. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1913.

Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose. Edited by Kenneth Sisam. Oxford, 1921.