It is known for being the first to print many important English manuscripts, including Cotton Nero A.x, which contains Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other poems.

[2] In 1935 the EETS decided to publish editions of the Ancrene Wisse,[2] a fourteenth century text also known as the A Guide for Anchoresses.

Another of his works, Mum and the Sothsegger, was also completed by Day and Robert Steele and published in 1936.

The Society keeps the majority of its older publications in print, except those which have been superseded by subsequent editions.

Richard Morris (the editor of 12 volumes between 1862 and 1880), Walter Skeat (philologist), Alfred Tennyson (poet laureate), Warren De la Rue (astronomer, chemist, and inventor), Richard Chenevix Trench (Irish ecclesiastic).