LEWIS, Sir George Cornewall

Small octavo., spine lettered gilt, boards decorated in blind. xii+290pp., addenda. Spine head snagged, spine tail a little chipped, cloth a little aged but a generally a very sound copy, clean and tight within. Cornewall Lewis, brought up at Harpton Court in Radnorshire (now Powys) and buried at Old Radnor, was both a political figure, one time Chancellor of the Exchequer, mediator during the American Civil War and also a man of letters and philologist. He compiled a glossary of provincial words used in Herefordshire and the adjoining counties and founded, with others, a journal ‘The Philological Museum’. ‘A monument was built to him in the village of New Radnor, and a statue erected in front of the Shirehall in Hereford. The present work was published in his ‘Cambridge Philological Museum’.