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The White Book Mabinogion:...
by EVANS J Gwenogvryn 1852-1930 (Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Pwllheli: Author, 1907. Subscribers Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Welsh Tales & Romances reproduced from the Peniarth Manuscripts. In black cloth, blind tooling to edges, corners and edges a little worn and bumped. Spine, gilt title & toolingt, joints cracked along cloth both sides, edges worn and bumped. Internally blue endpapers with some marks to front, a few spots to front & rear blanks, ink name to half title page (R Gwilym Hughes), text in double columns, (xxvii), [3], 312 pp, ink notes to fep, half title in Welsh as is the spine title - Y Mabinogion o Llvyr Gwyn Rhydderch. Not often seen! (246*167 mm). EVANS, palaeographer. The bibliography of his series of Welsh texts has not been fully worked out, but the following tentative list may be offered - the dates in [ ] representing discrepancies between imprints and actual publication: (1) The Text of the Mabinogion . from the Red Book of Hergest (Oxford, 1887); (2) Facsimile of the Black Book of Carmarthen (Oxford, 1908); (3) The Text of the Bruts (Oxford, 1890); (4) The Text of the Book of Llan Dav (Oxford, 1893); (5) The Black Book of Carmarthen (Pwllheli, 1906; students' ed, 1907); (6) Facsimile of the Chirk Codex (Llanbedrog, 1909 [1920]); (7) The White Book Mabinogion (Pwllheli, 1907 [1909]); (8) The Text of the Book of Aneirin (Pwllheli, 1908); Facsimile and Text of the Book of Aneirin (Pwllheli, 1908 [1910]); (9) The Text of the Book of Taliesin (Llanbedrog, 1910); Facsimile and Text of the Book of Taliesin (Llanbedrog, 1910 [1916]); (9b) Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translated (Llanbedrog, 1915 [1916]); (10) Kym-deithas Amlyn ac Amic (Llanbedrog, 1909); (11) The Poetry in the Red Book of Hergest (Llanbedrog, 1911); The Book of Aneirin revised and translated, vol. ii (Llanbedrog, 1922 [1924]; students' ed., Aberystwyth, 1934 [sic]); Poetry by Medieval Welsh Bards, vol. ii (Llanbedrog, 1926. See NLW WBO for a full Bio.
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- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003563
- Title
- The White Book Mabinogion:...
- Author
- EVANS J Gwenogvryn 1852-1930 (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Subscribers Edition
- Publisher
- Author
- Place of Publication
- Pwllheli
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 1.76 lbs
- Keywords
- Folklore Tales Stories Wales Welsh Mabinogion Peniarth Gwenogvryn Evans
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- Celtic Druids;
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