Geriadur Cymraeg A Saesoneg.

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An Abridgement of the Welsh and English Dictionary. In late 19c half blue calf with blue morocco boards, some blind tooling, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Spine, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to red leather label, joints cracked. Internally, later green endpapers, pencil name to fep, ink name to tp, (iv), [1], 2-399 pp, [5] adverts, printed by Marchant, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, London, text block edges reddened, two columns per page. (Libri Walliae 4194 for 1st) Pughe, William Owen [pseud. Idrison], antiquary and lexicographer, who in 1770 began to collect materials for a Welsh-English dictionary. The first section appeared ten years later, on 27 June 1793. Its publication proceeded slowly until 1803, when it was completed and issued in two volumes, with a grammar prefixed to the first. It contained about 100,000 words, with English equivalents, and, in a large number of cases, illustrative quotations from early Welsh literature. An abridgement of Owen's dictionary appeared in 1806, a new edition (revised by the author) in 1832, and a further edition, extended by Robert John Pryse, in 1866. See ODNB.