WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LANGUAGE AND

VERSIFICATION, AN INTRODUCTORY

DISCOURSE, NOTES, AND A

GLOSSARY BY THO.

TYRWHITT,
ESQ.

CONTENTS

OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

The Preface

Appendix to the Preface.

(A.) Account of former Editions of the Canterbury

Tales.

(B.) List of Mss. collated, or consulted, with the Ab-

breviations by which they are cited

Page

i

X

xxvi

(C.) Abstract of the Historical Passages of the Life of

Chaucer

xxix

An Account of the Works of Chaucer to which the Glossary

is adapted; and of those other Pieces which have been

improperly intermixed with his in the Editions

xli

An Essay on the Language and Versification of Chaucer... lxi

An Introductory Discourse to the Canterbury Tales

clv