William Pryce. 'Archaelogia Cornu-Britannica,' 1790. 'Or an ...

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William Pryce. 'Archaelogia Cornu-Britannica,' 1790. 'Or an Essay to Preserve the Ancient Cornish Language Containing the Rudiments of that Dialect in a Cornish Grammar and Cornish-English Vocabulary,' first and only edition, wherein the British original of some thousand English words is demonstrated together with that of the proper names of most towns, parishes, villages, mines and gentlemens seats and families in Wales, Cornwall, Devonshire and other parts of England , includes 14 pages of letters from Edward Lluydh to Thomas Tonkin, translation of the lord’s prayer, a list of Cornish British names which is translated into Cornish, English and Welsh, signed by John Tresidder who bought this book from the Rev’d Edward Walmsleys Library Sale, various interesting manuscript notes on bound in blank pages, modern marbled binding, a very good copy, printed by W. Cruttwell, 1790.

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