12mo, 18.5cm, first edition, viii,[2],l62p., original quarter pebbled red cloth backed printed grey paper over boards, printed library bookplate, very good to fine copy (ds1). This anthology of Welsh prose has been selected from the medieval narrative tradition of Welsh literature to the 18th century. It begins with part of the Mabinogion, short tales taken from early Welsh manuscripts, and continues with writers Gruffudd Roberts (d. 1789), a poet; Wiliam Morgan (16th century): Sion Dajydd Rhys (1534-1609) a physician who wrote on Welsh grammar; Morus Kyffin (1555-1598), a poet and soldier, who wrote poetry in Welsh and English; Edward Kyffin (1558-1603), a composer of psalms; Edward James (1569-1610) a cleric who translated English homilies into Welsh; Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659) a poet and mystic who wrote psalms; Charles Edwards (1628-c1691) a Welsh scholar and translator; Ellis Wynn (1670-1734) a cleric and author of classical Welsh prose; Theophilus Evans (1693-1767) a cleric and author; and Edward Samuel (1674-1748) also a cleric and poet. The editor, Edward Edwards, was a professor of history at Aberystwyth from 1896 to 1930. Abbey Mills operated in the Greenfield Valley, Holywell, Flintshire from 1770 to1982, and was known for its production of fine papers.

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Title: Clasuron Rhyddiaith Cymru [Classics of Welsh Prose]. Wedi eu dethol a'u golygu gan E. Edwards
Publisher: Bangor. Jarvis & Foster. 1897

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