ROWLAND, Thomas.

Title A Grammar of the Welsh Language: based on the most approved systems, with copious examples from some of the most correct Welsh writers. Fourth Edition. Greatly Revised and Improved. (Last and best edition).
Publisher Wrexham Wrecsam Hughes & Son
Date 1876
Book ID 38531

Description

Original maroon cloth, spine lettered gilt, blind stamped upper board, sprinkled fore-edges, xv+302pp.. Spine sunned, top edge dusty, usual mild damp spotting. A very good, tight copy. "... his title to remembrance is his Welsh Grammar, which went into four editions ( 1853, 1857, 1865, 1876 ) — a volume of Welsh Exercises was added in 1870. For a long period, Rowland's was the standard Welsh grammar, and Sir John Morris-Jones, while noting its defects, was yet able to testify that it contained ‘ a great deal of sound knowledge … about modern Welsh... Rowland was also, for the last ten years of his life, ‘corrector’ of Welsh place-names for the Ordnance Survey maps" (Jenkins, 1959)
Price: £12.00