Front matter

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ENGLISH DIALECTS FROM THE EIGHTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY BY THE REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, Litt.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D., F.B.A. Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fel- low of Christ’s College. Founder and formerly Director of the English Dialect Society “English in the native garb;” K. Henry V. v. 1. 80 Cambridge at the University Press 1912

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With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521 First Edition 1911. Reprinted 1912.