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Early English Text Society, Original Series

Early English Text Society, Original Series is a series of edited early English texts published by the Early English Text Society.

Publication History

The Early English Text Society, Original Series began in 1864. An Extra Series spun off in 1867. No issue or contribution copyright renewals were found for this serial. (More details) It is still published today. We list volumes below in their series order, which is not always the same as chronological order (particularly if the volumes were re-edited, as occurred for #14 and some others).

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1864-1922, 1925-1928: HathiTrust has numbers 1-4, 6-11, 13-37, 39-41, 43-94, 96-112, 114-151, 153-161, 166-167, 169-170, and 173. Some later volumes are searchable but not readable online here. Access to volumes after 1898 may be restricted outside the United States.
• 1869: We list the second edition of number 1, "Early English Alliterative Poems", edited by Richard Morris.
• 1864: We list number 2, "Arthur", edited by F. J. Furnivall.
• 1864: We list number 4, "Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight", edited by Richard Morris.
• 1865: We list number 5, "Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue", by Alexander Hume, edited by Henry B. Wheatley.
• 1865: We list number 9, "Animaduersions Uppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Workes" by Francis Thynne, edited by G. H. Kingley.
• 1865: We list number 12, "The Wright's Chaste Wife" by Adam of Cobsam, edited by F. J. Furnivall.
• 1901: We list number 14, "King Horn; Floriz and Blauncheflur; The Assumption of Our Lady", edited by J. R. Lumby and G. H. McKnight.
• 1889: We list number 16, "The Book of Quinte Essence", edited by F. J. Furnivall.
• 1867-1885: We list numbers 28, 38, 54, 67, and 81, "The Vision of Piers Plowman", by William Langland, edited by Walter Skeat.
• 1904: We list number 32, "Early English Meals and Manners", edited by F. J. Furnivall.
• 1869, 1874: We list numbers 39 and 56, "The Gest Hystoriale", edited by G. A. Panton.
• 1870: We list number 42, "Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris; With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c.", edited by J. Rawson Lumby.
• 1870: We list a reprint of number 43, "Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces", edited by J. Rawson Lumby.
• 1871-1872: We list numbers 45 and 50, "King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care", edited by Henry Sweet.
• 1873, 1879: We list numbers 52 and 72, "Palladius on Husbondrie", edited by B. Lodge.
• 1882: We list number 77, "Beowulf", edited by J. Zupitza.
• 1887: We list number 87, "The Early South-English Legendary", edited by C. Horstmann.
• 1888: We list number 91, "Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books", edited by Thomas Austin.
• 1890-1898: We list numbers 95, 96, 110, and 111, "The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People", edited by Thomas Miller.
• 1892-1901: We list numbers 98 and 117, "The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS.", edited by C. Horstmann and F. J. Furnivall.
• 1899: We list number 113, "Queen Elizabeth's Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch, and Horace", edited by Caroline Pemberton.
• 1902-1903: We list numbers 121 and 122, "The Laud Troy Book", edited by J. E. Wülfing.
• 1907-1913: We list numbers 133 and 144, "The English Register of Oseney Abbey", edited by Andrew Clark.
• 1909: We list number 137, "Twelfth Century Homilies in MS. Bodley 343", edited by A. O. Belfour.
• 1911: We list number 141, "The Middle English Poem Erthe Upon Erthe", edited by Hilda M. R. Murray.
• 1917: We list number 152, "Early English Homilies From the Twelfth Century MS. Vesp. D. XIV", edited by Rubie D.-N. Warner.
• 1919-1923: We list numbers 153 and 154, "Mandeville's Travels", edited by Paul Hamelius.
• 1923: We list number 162, "Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain", edited by Israel Gollancz.
• 1923: We list number 163, "The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's Church in London", edited by Norman Moore.
• 1924: We list number 164, "The Folewer to the Donet", by Reginald Pecock, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock.
• 1925: We list number 165, "Famous History of Chinon of England", by Christopher Middleton, edited by W. E. Mead.
• 1926: We list number 166, "A Stanzaic Life of Christ", edited by Frances A. Foster.
• 1925: We list number 167, "Dialogus Inter Militem et Clericum" and other words translated by John Trevisa, edited by Aaron Jenkins Perry.
• 1926: We list number 168, "The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry", translated by William Caxton, edited by A. T. P. Byles.
• 1927: We list number 171, "The Reule of Crysten Religioun" by Reginald Pecock, edited by William Cabell Greet.
• 1927: We list number 172, "The Seege or Batayle of Troye", edited by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle.
• 1928: We list number 174, "The Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of Saint Anne", edited by Roscoe Edward Parker.
• 1928: We list number 175, "The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay", edited by Beatrice White.
• 1928: We list number 176, "The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton", edited by W. J. B. Crotch.

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