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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). |
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| 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)
