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The following Bibliographical List was one of the very first works
undertaken for the use of the English Dialect Society, as it was evident
from the beginning that the first step to be taken was to ascertain how
much had been already accomplished towards the work which we hope
one day to complete. It was at first intended to issue a rough list
which might serve as a guide to workers, but so many additions’ were
made from time to time by various contributors that it seemed possible to
make such a list as, without pretension to be considered as exhaustive,
should at any rate contain the names of all the more important publications. Even then it appeared as if it would still be possible to
issue the first 48 pages of the list by the beginning of 1874; and, with
this view, the few words of preface printed at pp. 1 and 2 were written.
But various causes seriously delayed the work (as explained in the
Report for 1874), and have afforded me an opportunity of prefixing a
few further words by way of Introduction.
The lamented death of Dr Bannister, author of the Glossary of
Cornish Names, deprived us of such assistance ...
A Bibliographical List of the Works That Have Been Published, or Are Known to Exist in Ms., Illustrative of the Various Dialects of English. Compiled by Members of the English Dialect Society. Edited by Walter W. Skeat and J.h. Nodal
