Author: SPURRELL, William.
Title: A Grammar of the Welsh Language. Third Edition.
Description: Carmarthen, William Spurrell, 1870. Small 8vo. original green buckram, William Spurrell's gilt device to upper board, bevelled edges, viii+206pp. Cloth a little faded, contemporary, quite critical, ink annotations (see note) affecting a number of pages. A very good copy. Collectable; Very Good E. A. W. Vaughan Williams, E Coll. Iesu, Oxon inscribed to title page with his neat ink annotations inside. Interesting provenance for those living in Radnorshire (Powys) as he was vicar at Llanfihangel Nantmelan, New Radnor. In 1889, Edgar Arthur William Vaughan Williams edited a Welsh edition of the Book of Common Prayer (Daniel Silvan Evans having published an edition some ten years previously) and was the author of 'Gathered Thoughts: the book of common prayer" amongst other writings. Hardcover.

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