William Pryce. 'Cornish Grammar and Vocabbulary'. Archaelogica Cornu-Britannica; or an essay to preserve the Ancient Cornish Language containing the rudiments of that Dialect in a Cornish Grammar and Cornish-English Vocabularly'.
William Pryce, M. D. Redruth, Cornwall (1749-1823). First edition, in half brown, calf over marbled boards, spine raised bands, slight rubbing otherwise a a near fine copy, gilt and blind tooling, gilt title to black label, binding by E.Riley and Son, loosely inserted a post office telegram dated 19th Feb 1936, from Caradar (A.S.D.Smith) Perranporth to Miss Cook, Eaton Crescent, Clifton in Cornish, compiled from a variety of materials which have been inaccessible to all other authors, which includes 14 pages of letters from Edward Lhuyd to Thomas Tonkin, translation of the Lord’s Prayer, a list of Cornish British names, Cornish grammar which is translated into Cornish, English & Welsh, publshed by W.Crutwell, Sherborne and sold by Dilly, Poultry, London, Grigg and Son, Exeter, 1790.
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William Pryce, M. D. Redruth, Cornwall (1749-1823). First edition, in half brown, calf over marbled boards, spine raised bands, slight rubbing otherwise a a near fine copy, gilt and blind tooling, gilt title to black label, binding by E.Riley and Son, loosely inserted a post office telegram dated 19th Feb 1936, from Caradar (A.S.D.Smith) Perranporth to Miss Cook, Eaton Crescent, Clifton in Cornish, compiled from a variety of materials which have been inaccessible to all other authors, which includes 14 pages of letters from Edward Lhuyd to Thomas Tonkin, translation of the Lord’s Prayer, a list of Cornish British names, Cornish grammar which is translated into Cornish, English & Welsh, publshed by W.Crutwell, Sherborne and sold by Dilly, Poultry, London, Grigg and Son, Exeter, 1790.
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