Author: JONES, RHYS [COMP.]
Title: Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru: Neu Flodau Godidowgrwydd Awen. [the Achievements of the Bards of Wales]
Description: Amwythig [Shrewsbury]: Stafford Prys, 1773. First Edition. Brown calf spine with marbled hardback board cover. 260mm x 210mm (10" x 8"). [xxiv], 300pp. A major anthology of Welsh poetry from AD 510 to 1560. It includes examples of praise poetry, elegies, love poetry and other poetic forms. The compiler was a Welsh cleric, scholar and antiquary. The preface, list of Bards and subscribers are in English, the poetry comprising 300 pages is in Welsh.. G: in good condition. Re-bound, with newer eps. Spine browned. Edge-wear. Inner hinge cracking. Browning to eps. Sporadic light foxing and marking. Occasional ink annotatiobs; pencil notes on last two pages together with tipped-in letter dated 1840 .

Keywords: Poetry 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian Languages


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