Telyn Dewi; sef gwaith prydyddawl y Parch. David Davis, o Gastell-hywel, Ceredigion.. DAVIS Parch David 1745-1827 Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, a Green Publish Year: 1824 Publish Place: Paternoster Row, London Illustrator: HARVEY. BOND. Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 004782 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: First Edition Inscription: Unknown £60 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information In contemporary brown boards, ink name & date to top center (Morgan 1882), corners & edges a little bumped & worn. New paper spine, ink title to white paper label. Internally, frontis, [4], (v-viii), [1], 2-210 pp, remains of bookseller label to fpd, plus some pencil notes, tissue guarded portrait frontis, some chips to front edge, ink name to title page head (? Morgan), printed by F Fagg of Swansea, some light browning and soiling to page edges, minimal foxing to blanks. Pages 184-210 are a subscribers list. Arian Minister, poet and schoolmaster, sometimes known as Davis Castellhywell. (for a full Bio see William's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen p112), also online at NLW. COPAC shows various holdings and later editions of 1876 and 1927. Title continues: Yn cynnwys amryw gyfansoddiadau o ei eiddo ei hun, a chyfieithiadau allan o waith rhai o'r prydyddion enwocae yn y iaeth Saesonaeg; Addison, Young, Gray, Barbauld, Pope, etc..
