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Scanned image of the book's front cover Walter W. Skeat. 
English Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day.
Cambridge U.P., 1911.
The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series.
[No ISBN].
Hardback, stitch bound; no dustjacket.
122x166x13mm.
ix,139pp plus foldout sheet (monochrome reproduction of Henry III's proclamation in English of 1258). 
English.
Overall good condition: no dustjacket; spine somewhat faded, free endpapers browned, page tops a little grubby. 

This item £8.00
[Echo Library paperback in print at £8.90]
169g.

Contents: Dialects & their value; Dialects in early times; Dialects of Northumbria till AD 1300; Dialects of Northumbria 1300-1400; Northumbrian in the 15th-c.; Southern dialect; Southern dialect of Kent; Mercian dialect; Foreign elements; Later history; Modern dialects; A few specimens.

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