Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790 [or, An essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language]. -

Description

Main Author

Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.

Related Names

Lhuyd, Edward, 1660-1709.
Gwavas, William, 1676-1741.
Tonkin, Thomas, 1678-1742.

Language(s)

English ; Cornish

Published

Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.

Subjects

Cornish language > Cornish language / Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Cornish language > Cornish language / Grammar.

Note

Includes several letters written by Edward Lhuyd to Thomas Tonkin.
"Much of the matter was taken whole sale from the collections of Thomas Tonkin and William Gwavas."--Dict. nat. biog.
Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., Sherborne, W. Cruttwell, 1790.
Cornwall, Devonshire, and other parts of England.
Original t.p.: Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica; or, An essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language; containing the rudiments of that dialect, in a Cornish grammar and Cornish-English vocabulary, compiled from a variety of materials which have been inaccessible to all other authors. Wherein the British original of some thousand English words in common use is demonstrated; together with that of the proper names of most towns, parishes, villages, mines, and gentlemen's seats and families, in Wales,

Physical Description

[29], 65, [175] p.; 27 cm. -

ISBN

0854178880

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