A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, by JMD Meiklejohn. Boston: D C Heath & Co. 1887.
This is the second half of a longer work (The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing and Punctuation) which was split out for separate study. I don’t believe the first half is available as a stand-alone volume.
Thanks to Louise Hope for post-processing this project.