The literary remains of the Rev. Thomas Price, Carnhuanawc, vicar of Cwmdû, Breconshire, and rural dean, author of Hanes Cymru, Essays on the geographical progress of empire and civilization, etc. etc

by: Price, Thomas, 1787-1848 author

Publication date: 1854

Topics: Celtic philology, Welsh literature, Price, Thomas, 1787-1848, Authors, Welsh -- Biography, Welsh literature -- History and criticism, Travel, Brittany (France) -- Description and travel, France -- Brittany

Publisher: Llandovery : William Rees ; London : Longman & Co.

Collection: gettyphotographyincunabula; getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Volume: v.2

Includes 3 calotype illustrations

2 volumes : 23 cm

Includes 3 calotype salt prints

Pagination, volume 1: xvi, 400 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates; volume 2: xii, 419 pages, 19 unnumbered leaves of plates

Volume 1. Tour through Brittany. An essay on the comparative merits of the remains of ancient literature in the Welsh, Irish, and Gaelic languages. An essay on the influence which the Welsh traditions have had on the literature of Europe. A critical essay on the history of the language and literature of Wales, A.D. 1080-1294. An historical account of the Statuta Wallace, or the Statutes of Rhuddlan, by which Wales was annexed to England -- volume 2. Selections from Price's private manuscripts, fugitive papers and correspondence. Memoir of the life of Thomas Price by Jane Williams, Ysgafell

Includes index